Our Friendship Will Weather The Current Disagreement

When I Say That Terrorism Is War Against Civilization, I May Be Met By The Objection That Terrorists Are Often Idealists Pursuing Worthy Ultimate Aims -- National Or Regional Independence, And So Forth. I Do Not Accept This Argument. I Cannot Agree That A Terrorist Can Ever Be An Idealist, Or That The Objects Sought Can Ever Justify Terrorism. The Impact Of Terrorism, Not Merely On Individual Nations, But On Humanity As A Whole, Is Intrinsically Evil, Necessarily Evil And Wholly Evil.

I'm Very Proud Of The Fact That Israel Is The One Country In A Very Broad Radius That - In Which Arabs Have Free And Fair Elections. That's Sacrosanct. That Will Never Change. I Wasn't Trying To Suppress A Vote. I Was Trying To Get Something To Counter A Foreign-funded Effort To Get Votes That Are Intended To Topple My Party. And I Was Calling On Our Voters To Come Out.

There Is A Great Danger To The World, Not Only To My Country [israel] But To The United States, To The Middle East, To Peace, To All Of Humanity, From The Prospect That Such Regimes That Brutalize Its Own People, That Sponsors Terrorism More Than Any Other Regime In The World - That This Regime Acquires Atomic Bombs Is Very, Very Dangerous.

As Far As A Nuclear Weapons-free Zone, You Know, When The Lion Lies Down With The Lamb, And You Don't Need A New Lamb Every Day To Satisfy The Lion, Then We Might Have This Kind Of Transformation In The Middle East.

Israel Can Make Peace With An Organization That Seeks Its Destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel Can Make Peace With The Palestinian Authority. It Requires A Lot Of Courage From Both Sides Including President Mahmoud Abbas, The President Of The Palestinian Authority.