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.

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.

What we saw tonight in Tel Aviv was the Palestinian response to the Mitchell report,

Instead of being happy and celebrating the Israeli departure from Gaza, they are whining and crying, ... This will not help them build a future Palestinian state. What will the Israelis say if they are asked to make any more sacrifices? I don't know, but they may think it's not worth it if this is the result.

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

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.