Zalman Shoval Quotes


Whether one is left or right, Jerusalem has a place in Israel's 3,000-year-old history. ... Israel cannot make the sort of compromise they want. - Zalman Shoval



We don't regard the situation of those large settlement blocs ... any differently from any other place in Israel. - Zalman Shoval



We are now going to be commemorating ten years since the end of the Gulf War, ... I think all of us are aware that the Middle East today in 2001 is a far more dangerous region that it was in 1991. Now that is not a reason to not pursue peace. But that is a reason to pursue a policy of peace with security. - Zalman Shoval



Unless he takes control of things, as he's expected to do, this will raise increasing concerns on our part whether we really have a counterpart in the Gaza Strip to take control after we leave. - Zalman Shoval



There have been contacts on different levels with Pakistani officials for several years, ... Even I myself had contacts with the Pakistani ambassador during my tenure in Washington and I always heard the willingness and desire to establish relations at the right moment. - Zalman Shoval



The way an embassy is constructed, the way people can get to the embassy, what construction materials are used ... all those things have to be taken into account, without any doubt. And just repeat three times: vigilance, vigilance, vigilance. - Zalman Shoval