For Me, Peace Should Provide Security To

The Strength That I Have Comes From Irrigating The Citrus Plantation, Ploughing In The Vineyard, Guarding The Melon Fields At Night. I Believe That's What Gave Me The Strength.

My Strength Never Came From Political Echelons, It Came From The Family. And From The Fields And The Lands And The Flowers And Everything I See There. My Strength Came From There.

Peace Should Provide Security. It Should Be Durable. I'm Ready To Go Far In Making Painful Concessions. But There Is One Thing I Will Never Make Any Concessions On And That's The Security Of The Israeli Citizens And The Very Existence Of The State Of Israel. The Palestinians Are Losing Time.

If There Will Be A Serious Palestinian Prime Minister Who Makes A 100 Percent Effort To End Terrorism, Then We Can Have Peace. Each Side Has To Take Steps. If Terror Continues, There Will Not Be An Independent Palestinian State. Israel Will Not Accept It, If Terror Continues.

To The Citizens Of Israel, I Say: We Have Passed Difficult Years, Faced The Most Painful Experiences And Overcome Them. The Future Lies Before Us. We Are Required To Take Difficult And Controversial Steps, But We Must Not Miss The Opportunity To Try To Achieve What We Have Wished For, For So Many Years: Security, Tranquillity And Peace.