The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories.

It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not better rifles - to win wars, and mainly to avoid them.

We will haven't recovered from this (the Holocaust) and I still hear these calls from Iran to destroy Israel.

Israel expects the Palestinian authorities to take immediate action to stop the firing and put an end to violence.

Gaza from now on is the problem of the Palestinians, not Israel, ... They have tens of thousands of [security] men with guns on the payroll. They must get organized: one people, one voice, one gun.

It is as much an internal battle within the whole Arab world as a conflict with Israel.