The sad fact about the statement of the President of Iran is that he was correctly articulating the policy of his regime which has given hands-on support to the most extreme terrorist elements in the Middle East.
Things like what happened today happen because terrorist groups remain armed.
And the sad truth is that, today, unfortunately, the Palestinians are just not up to the challenge of policing their own border and preventing extremist, terrorist elements from coming in to the Gaza Strip,
We will defend our citizens and act against the terrorist groups.
The fence isn't going up in a vacuum, ... It's going up in the context of an all-too-real terrorist threat.
The whole process of reconciliation between us and the Palestinians is based on the principle that terrorist groups will be disarmed. Unfortunately, things like what happened today happen because terrorist groups remain armed.
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.