Mark Regev Security Quotations

We found solutions both sides can live with. The challenge was to find a successful balance between the very real security threats faced by Israel, while providing maximum movement in and out of Gaza for the Palestinians. I think it's a win-win agreement.

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

We have proposed an EU presence there to act as an auxiliary that would enable the Palestinians to do their job. We have to have a force there that can make sure that border security is what it should be.

We hope that the organized international community will, through the vehicle of the Security Council, present the extremist regime in Tehran with a clear dilemma. Either they totally cease their nuclear weapons development program or they seriously endanger their relationship with the community of nations.

We have to move ahead on the crossings issue by balancing the very real security threats with the desire to allow for maximum possible movement of people and goods.

We understand there are real needs, and we'll do what we can, but we can't just open up the borders immediately, because of security concerns. We'll do things incrementally.

We understand the needs, and we have offered another option, but the Palestinians rejected this. We have had to take additional security steps because we have seen an escalation in terrorist activity.

Israel supports the European position. We believe that the international community - through the UN Security Council - must present the Iranian regime with a clear dilemma, either they totally cease their nuclear weapons program, or they endanger their relationship with the outside world.

The third party will be on the Palestinian side of the frontier, and will be there to help beef up the Palestinian security presence.

The whole agreement is to balance between security and movement. Hopefully, there will be conditions so we will not have to close it in the future. We would only do so if there is a specific security need.

(Abbas) goes by the motto of 'one authority, one law, one security service'. But we don't see him putting this motto into use.

The fear was that extremists would use porous borders to pour into Gaza to bring in explosives, weaponry cash, and that would energize the most extremist elements in the Gaza Strip instead of helping the moderates. I think this agreement that we have reached today has the right balance. It provides the maximum possible movement for Palestinians to move in and out of Gaza, as they desire and for goods to come in and out of Gaza, and at the same time for that to be balanced with the very real security concerns that everyone has.

He called for the destruction of our country, of another UN member, and we don't believe the international community can let this stand. We've raised the issue with the secretary general and at the Security Council.