Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Silvan Shalom

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Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Zion Silvan Shalom is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Likud between 1992 and 2015. He held several prominent ministerial positions, including being Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. He resigned on 24 December 2015 following allegations of sexual harassment. Later on, the Attorney-General closed this investigation and said these claims were unsubstantiated.

Israeli - Politician | Born: October 4, 1958

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We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

Silvan Shalom

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

Silvan Shalom

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

Silvan Shalom

We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

Silvan Shalom

I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

Silvan Shalom

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

Silvan Shalom

We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

Silvan Shalom

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

Silvan Shalom

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

Silvan Shalom

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

Silvan Shalom

The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Silvan Shalom

Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Silvan Shalom

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

Silvan Shalom

In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

Silvan Shalom

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Silvan Shalom

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Silvan Shalom

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

Silvan Shalom

There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Silvan Shalom

Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Silvan Shalom

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