Ariel Sharon Terror Quotations

Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.

Now there is a real chance that new Palestinian leaders will rise -- those who will be elected -- who will truly abandon the path of terror and instead will advance a strategy of reconciliation and negotiation without violence, terror and hatred,

sends a deadly message that encourages terror on the one hand and prevents countries from protecting themselves against it on the other.

I feel the pain of the family and I wish that the wounded will heal, ... Israel will not yield and will continue fighting terror until it is destroyed just like we are fighting it now.

Jewish terror ... aimed against innocent Palestinians, out of twisted thinking, aimed at stopping the disengagement.

Today's terrible murder is the Palestinian way of rejecting and disrupting the plan. We will fight terror and do our utmost to prevent such incidents from recurring and, therefore, I will fight for my plan.

We are in constant contact with the Russians in order to settle this issue and ensure these weapons do not reach terror organizations located in Lebanon,

That will show if they are capable of running independence of their own and if they are capable of stopping terror ... That is where they are going to be checked if they can run a country or not.

We are concerned that this welcome quiet will be shattered any minute as a result of the continued existence of terror organizations which the Palestinian Authority is doing nothing to eliminate or dismantle.

We will continue to fight against the heads of the extreme terror organizations, the ones that initiate, fund and send out terrorists in order to murder Jews, ... We will continue to act against all the enemies of peace.

Israel is consulting with international figures about the legality of a terror organization in an election,

To my regret, as long as terror continues we shall not be able to move forward as we would have wished,

The most important test the Palestinian leadership will face is in fulfilling their commitments to put an end to terror and its infrastructure, ... Until they do so, Israel will know how to defend itself.

The government I will lead will make every effort to reach peace, but the condition for starting peace talks is the cessation of terror and violence.

Now it is the Palestinians' turn to prove their desire for peace, ... The most important test the Palestinian leaders will face is in fulfilling their commitment to putting an end to terror and its infrastructures, eliminate the anarchic regime of armed gangs and cease the incitement and indoctrination of hatred toward Israel and the Jews.

Now it is the Palestinians turn to prove their desire for peace, ... The most important test the Palestinian leaders will face is in fulfilling their commitment to putting an end to terror and its infrastructures, eliminate the anarchic regime of armed gangs and cease the incitement and indoctrination of hatred toward Israel and the Jews.

There shall be no restrictions on the use of all means to hit the terrorists and the terror organizations, their equipment and their hideouts,

In many cases, we prevented serious disasters, ... Sometimes things happen like what happened today. But we intend to continue the struggle against terror with all force.

serious results, but the struggle against terror will continue.

I have ordered that there be no limitation regarding use of all means to hit the terrorists, the men of the terror organizations, to hit them, their equipment and their hideouts,

I have outlined to Gen. Powell the steps I will take if calm is restored in order to ease the economic conditions of the Palestinian population in the Palestinian Authority territories, ... One thing will be clear. Israel will not be negotiating under the pressure of terror and violence.

The bombing today is a continuation (of) bombing by the Palestinians, another terror act, assassinations and murder and shelling and so on,

It has been proven that terror chases those who flee it.

A genuine war against terror by the Palestinians, involving the real effort to prevent terror, is key to progress in political process,

It's about the window of opportunity that is open now. That, of course, now all depends if the Palestinians will act against terror. And now we don't see any change whatsoever. Even yesterday we had a very, a very hard terror act. As a matter of fact it happens almost every day now,

To an outstretched hand of peace we will respond with an olive branch but expressions of terror will be met by fire more intense than ever.