Gideon Meir Quotations

This was the most difficult place, no question about that. But in the end it went faster than anyone imagined.

What's been going on these last few days has been so moving,

They are paying a really painful price. It's a painful process.

If you can take these two things together as a package, it emphasizes once again why we insist, and the U.S. administration insists, that the Palestinian Authority crack down on Hamas and Islamic Jihad, ... There is no negotiating with them, no talking. This is not language they understand. Putting them under a political umbrella will not help. They must be fought.

Until now, we had a lot of patience, but patience is running out,

We have to tighten our security around the cities and that is what we are doing.

A process that the Israel government ... took upon itself in order to extend our hand in peace to the Palestinians. This is what Israel is willing to do in order to live in peace with the Palestinians.

Arafat is not the target. This response is the minimum Israelis can do as an act of self-defense after the massive, vicious terror attacks on civilians.

After 38 years, we are leaving Gaza in order to enable the Palestinians to run their own lives ... Now it is their turn to show they can run a normal life, a normal economy, have a new beginning.

We need to make sure the Palestinians stick to their commitments.