I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is clear a Palestinian state is needed.
I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
I became a prime minister within four-and-a-half years, the shortest kind of career ever in Israeli political history.
I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.