They agreed to collect and dispose of illegal weapons, imprison and hand over wanted murderers, and reduce the Palestinian police to the numbers prescribed in the Oslo agreements. This is education for war, not for peace. And they agreed that they must complete the annulment of the Palestinian charter, which can only be done by the Palestinian National Council. That charter is still on the books, still on the internet, still calling for Israel's destruction thorough armed struggle, a euphemism for terrorism. You cannot talk peace and tolerate terrorism.
Terrorism endangers our peace, but it is also a global cancer.
Many leaders today understand this, as President Clinton made abundantly clear in this hall. We have no quarrel with Islam. It is one of the world's great religions, and we have admiration and respect for its institutions and its teachings. But fanatic Islamist terrorism is religion betrayed. It threatens not only us.