Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak:
The United States is a central source for Israel’s qualitative edge [over its enemies] in advanced weapons systems, $3 billion in annual financial aid, ammunition and spare parts that are spread out here in American storage facilities within Israel, and upon which the IDF relies as an ‘oxygen supply’ in time of war.
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I believe it is our duty to work toward an arrangement that marks out a clear border inside Israel on the basis of security and demographic considerations.