24 Quotes by Yossi Beilin

What we need right now, urgently, is a coalition of sanity.

When there's a will by both sides, the final five weeks might be sufficient, ... I hope Palestinians and Israelis will be strong enough to get to the moment of truth, to the permanent solution, which is around the corner.

I wouldn't say that this was the main reason but if elections weren't happening, maybe the decision would have been different.

I believe we solve the whole question of the permanent agreement, and we are very close to it; it is actually around the corner.

But the room for maneuver for both leaderships is bigger than what they really think, and I think once they take brave decisions then they can convince their peoples to go along and to support them,

If anyone really wants to get prisoners released, the last thing he should do to encourage it is to continue with this process, because not one of us will countenance release of prisoners on the background of columns of smoke in the territories,

It is a golden opportunity when the American administration is ready to be so much involved and has invested so much in the peace process, ... I am still optimistic about getting the solution in the very near future.

I think if both of us, Palestinians and Israelis, cannot find our own solutions, nobody will help us.

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.