Silvan Shalom Israel Quotations

I think that this is the appropriate time for all the Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel, ... I think that it will be a very positive signal to the Israeli public opinion and to the Palestinian public opinion that there are some fruits from this withdrawal from Gaza.

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

Israel is very sorry about the decision that was taken by the government of New Zealand, but we believe that if we will work one with each other, as we used to work in the past, we will overcome the last difficulties,

Israel is a democracy; everyone can say what they would like to. But they are a very very small minority in Israeli public opinion.

We made a huge breakthrough today..., ... This is the appropriate time for all the Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel. We think it will be a very positive signal to Israeli and Palestinian public opinion that there are some fruits from this withdrawal from Gaza.

We will ease the life of Palestinians by giving them more industrial zones, more licenses to work in Israel and to stay overnight here.

She's coming also to try and narrow the gap between Israel and the Palestinians and to help us strengthen our relations with the Arab and Muslim world.

lay down in black-and-white that any organisation which calls for the destruction of Israel cannot participate in elections.