Quote #17
The court ignored the fact the right to live is a basic human right. The effectiveness of the tribunal is in its ability to rule against terror, and not only against those who fight it.
More from Shimon Peres
- The Arabs began to understand that it is not poverty creating terror, but terror creating poverty. They are the victims of their own errors.
- With the religious you can hardly negotiate. They think they have supreme permission to kill people and go to war.
- You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.
- Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
- If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
- Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
- I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.
- If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent - that's good enough.