We have every confidence that if there is no decline, the market will go higher. A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. The country couldn't afford the agony of a Constitutional crisis - and I damn well will not be a party to one just to become President or anything else. It's easier to keep the stable clean when there's not a horse in it. Freedom of speech does not mean that everyone gets his own frequency.
Palestinian sentiments regarding Jerusalem are identical to our own.
Private groups must not be allowed to harm government policy, no matter how well-meaning they may be. From time to time, Arafat spouts nonsense. Just like the Oslo agreement had to last long enough for two aging Israeli politicians and a terrorist to get the Nobel Peace Prize. Whoever is expecting a new Middle East is mistaken. So said Mossad head Ephraim Halevy to a gathering of Arab diplomats in Jerusalem on Friday.