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Peace is important for Israel.

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.

Something that truly frustrates me is the impression in Israel that when you are talking about security, you are bold; you are tough: this is what we need against all the enemies that we have. And when someone is talking about peace, you know, it's the naive left wing, soft.

I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

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.