We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.
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It is going to be the Europeans, I hope, who will supplement the Palestinian forces, and provide professionalism, and provide a presence on the ground that will create, I think, better confidence to reopen all the crossings,
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