"a speech is not enough"

"Israel needs to make peace, agree to withdraw to borders premised on the 1967 lines, keep Jerusalem’s Jewish parts, finalize security arrangements to be guaranteed by the US and ensure that the outcome of the process will preserve the State of Israel as the Jewish people’s national, secure home – not through verbal pledges, but via a reality that will emerge as result of the agreement.

This will not be achieved with Congress or Knesset speeches, but rather, with the courage to take decisions that will change a reality which is increasingly creating a substantive threat on the State of Israel’s stature, on the international support it receives, and on its future as a Jewish democratic state."

Der frühere israelische Ministerpräsident Ehud Olmert in seinem Beitrag "A speech isn’t enough" für Ynet-News (27. Mai)