103 Quotes by Ra'anan Gissin

We impose on ourselves a policy of self-restraint in order to try and end this 10-month stretch of violence that is leading both sides to nowhere, ... Therefore there is a possibility to make a decision here ... to go to the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. I can tell you we are willing to make painful compromises for that.

Everyone who undergoes this kind of event, it does something to him in terms of perceptions, in terms of the need to hold back and take it easy for a while.

committed to the cease-fire ... committed to peace.

Europe supports Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority. It's the wrong decision, at the wrong time, to the wrong address.

The response that we got was heavy gunfire, more gunfire,

There's no reason in the world why we should provide the facilities for people to vote for an organization that calls for the destruction of Israel and will undermine the political process.

The time, method -- the ways by which this will take place -- will be decided separately, and the security services will continue to monitor the situation and make the recommendation about the proper action as they have done in the past.

Israel is not going to tolerate these acts as we move into this very sensitive period. They either bring them to justice or we bring justice to them.

Israel intends to withdraw from the Palestinian areas when and where the Palestinian Authority decides to observe the cease-fire.