Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak:
The lack of defined boundaries within Israel, and not an Iranian bomb, is the greatest threat to our future. We have a paramount interest in establishing defined borders between ourselves and the Palestinians that will set the stage for two states for two peoples. It must be understood that if between the Jordan and the (Mediterranean) sea there is only one political entity, called Israel, it will by necessity either not be Jewish or not democratic and we will turn into an apartheid state.