We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.