It would be a massive strategic blunder to sacrifice the entrance to Jerusalem and put it in the range of gunfire.

When people cross from side to side, terrorists cross, and weapons pass, too, ... That's what worries us. And this could have been avoided.

I think it is a historical tragic mistake to open the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt and to enable Egyptian troops to be deployed on the Israeli border again.

I can tell you with confidence that Israel is not spying in the United States or in the Pentagon -- period, ... Since the [Jonathan] Pollard case 20 years ago, there was clear and firm decision not to spy against the United States government or in the United States, and therefore I am 100 percent confident that there is no Israeli involvement in this case.

Egypt is doing to us in the south what Syria is doing to America in Iraq.

I say very clearly that Israel is not spying in the United States or against the United States.