I'm saying those things here and now out of a belief in the State of Israel's immense power and the immeasurable courage of its soldiers, military leaders, and security forces to hit any enemy and defeat any terrorist. Out of this sense of strength we must act with all our power in order to create hope for a different life for our young generation and that of our Palestinian neighbors.
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We will definitely change the route either east or west in accordance to internal Israeli agreement. The fence that will be built... will be the border line that will separate Israel and the Palestinians. Israelis will not live beyond the fence.
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The pullout from Gaza is in no way an attempt to trade off Gaza for the West Bank.
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What we have is a bad atmosphere building up all over the Middle East, we have a new climate in which lots of dark clouds are gathering,
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While we respect Abbas and are prepared to deal with him in the same manner we have done, we won't be able to continue the same pattern of relations if he chooses to surrender to the existence of a terrorist organization rather than act to disarm it.
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Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, ... Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want Israel to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.
Ehud Olmert
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