Hebrew → English transcript

He didn’t hit him, first of all,

He hit him. You beat them up, not just one hit, hits so painful…

that the price will be too heavy. Right now the price is not too heavy.

Attacking Arafat is fun,

but not the Palestinians. They seem tense that everything is collapsing.

They just aren’t afraid, they’re laughing at us, they shot at us

inside the… it’s laughter and… they just aren’t afraid of us.

So that’s what brings, brings us to… wait, but, but,

but then again the world will say, “What, you’re occupiers?”

The world won’t say anything. The world will say that we are defending ourselves.

Won’t that scare the world, Bibi?

Especially today with America. I know what America is.

America is something that you can move easily, move

in the right direction. They won’t interfere. They won’t interfere. And if

they do something, then they… then let them say something.

Eighty percent of Americans support us. It’s absurd.

I wasn’t afraid in the maneuver there. I wasn’t afraid to confront Clinton.

I wasn’t afraid to confront anyone. What were the Oslo Accords?

The Oslo Accords, which the Knesset signed… they asked me

before the elections: “Will you uphold them?” I said: “I will uphold them,

on condition of reciprocity and limiting the withdrawals.” But how do you limit

the withdrawals?

I will give an interpretation of the agreement that will allow me to stop this headlong rush

toward the ’67 borders. How did we do that?

No one said what “designated military sites” are. Designated

military sites, I said, are security zones.

As far as I am concerned, the entire Jordan Valley is a designated military site.

Right. An area… communities, Beit She’an, the Beit She’an Valley.

Go tell them. Go tell them. But then there was a question: who will define

what “designated military sites” are?

I received a letter from Christopher, to me and to Arafat, in the same wording…

…saying that Israel, and Israel alone, is the one that will define…

…what they are, their locations, these military sites, and

their size. Now, they did not want to give this letter, so

I did not give the Hebron Agreement. I stopped the cabinet meeting,

I said: “I am not signing.” Only when the letter arrived, in the midst of

The meeting with Arafat and me… …I signed the Hebron Agreement.

Tell him it is better to give two percent than to give one hundred percent.

And that was the choice we faced here. You gave two percent…

…and with that you stopped this withdrawal, instead of one hundred percent.