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I took this from the CNN transcripts from Larry King last evening. I was unloading my groceries and I had this on in the background. I'll tell you what...
I was TOTALLY moved by what the PM said.
Here it is.
SINIORA: Well, I expressed my views several times that making peace requires historic men and courageous men and I think the Israelis and the Arabs for the past 58 years they have been fighting and tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of people got killed.
And, a society, the Palestinian by itself, they have been really been refugees all over the world. It's high time to really think in terms of the interests of the young men and women and children, of Arabs and Israelis. And it is in the interest of all concerned to work really towards peace.
Making wars after let's say more than ten wars have been made since 1948 and it could not really solve any problem. The best thing is to really see how you can make peace.
Let me tell you, Larry, it is not the quantity of arms and weapons that makes the security of any people or any country. It is in its ability to build good relations with its neighbor. It is not through killing and vengeance and the spreading death here and there and making destruction
It is by creating confidence and creating confidence can't happen without really working towards a comprehensive and just peace in the Middle East whereby all they can cooperate together.
I think this is probably an opportunity. It is very, very important for historic men to see how they can convert a calamity for a problem situation into an opportunity.
If the Israelis can seize this opportunity that was made by the Arabs in their summit in Beirut in the year 2002 where they offered to really build peace on the basis of international resolutions and what was agreed in Madrid before so that they can build peace together.
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Wow. Just wow. It's pretty basic, isn't it?
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