Zalman Shoval Quotations

Now they want to say, 'What the previous administration put on the table, OK, we take that and let's start and have further demands and have further concessions from Israel,' ... That's not the way to do business.

We are now going to be commemorating ten years since the end of the Gulf War, ... I think all of us are aware that the Middle East today in 2001 is a far more dangerous region that it was in 1991. Now that is not a reason to not pursue peace. But that is a reason to pursue a policy of peace with security.

Whether one is left or right, Jerusalem has a place in Israel's 3,000-year-old history. ... Israel cannot make the sort of compromise they want.

Unless he takes control of things, as he's expected to do, this will raise increasing concerns on our part whether we really have a counterpart in the Gaza Strip to take control after we leave.

There have been contacts on different levels with Pakistani officials for several years,

We don't regard the situation of those large settlement blocs ... any differently from any other place in Israel.

Israel is of course interested in widening its official diplomatic relations with as many countries as possible and especially Muslim countries.

Israel salutes the United States, which has proven once again that it will fight the scourge of terrorism which, as last week's bombings in east Africa have shown, endanger the entire free world.

The way an embassy is constructed, the way people can get to the embassy, what construction materials are used ... all those things have to be taken into account, without any doubt. And just repeat three times: vigilance, vigilance, vigilance.

The great danger is that both people and arms could be smuggled under the unwatchful eyes of the Egyptians - that was the whole purpose of coming to this agreement,