We have reached the moment of truth today, ... There is a way to achieve peace and security, but a unilateral withdrawal under fire and with nothing in return is certainly not the way.
This government was elected to advance the peace process and achieve real peace, peace with reciprocity,
I don't want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution. But for that, circumstances have to change.
The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.
Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.
I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.
We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.
You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.