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...Barak: No. Look, Lebanon is a tragedy. It's not my definition, it's the definition of one of my predecessors, Menachem Begin, who ordered [the army to enter] Lebanon for 48 hours to push a little bit the Palestinians at that time. And when the death toll accumulated to 600, he said, it's a tragedy, I cannot stand it anymore, and he isolated himself at his home. Since then, we are still there for 15 years and another 500 or 400 people [died]. We have more than a thousand families in Israel that buried their sons there...
...Barak: We have a Talmudic saying, truth is self-evident. When you do the right thing, it cannot weaken you. I'm not working for ratings or for the momentary mood. It doesn't matter. If we act to change reality in the right direction, it strengthens us. It doesn't weaken us. Always think of the alternative - to stay there another 15 years? And if the Israel Defense Forces were weak, the real weakness would project itself. But since they are very strong, I'm not afraid. And they'll become stronger. Why? Because they are not running after...
...Barak: Five years ago it was not ripe. The Hezbollah made major mileage since then. We had to invest much more. We ended up with armor against explosive charges of 50 kilograms. It's a monster. When we began, we defended our cars against mines. A mine is maybe 10 pounds of explosives. So they put two mines together. So you make the cars heavier. So they go into highly sophisticated digital processors for the coding. So we came into encoding and EW. Then they began to use anti-tank Tow missiles, very accurate. You find yourself in a quiet...
...Barak: We are very intensively focused on the Palestinian track, trying to achieve a framework agreement within the next maybe two months or so. There is a strategic need and an opportunity. And at least my partner on this track [Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat] says if there is a will there is a way, so maybe there is a will as well...
...Barak: He might do it in a way that we will have to immediately, the same evening, respond with our unilateral steps since he will not declare it within the borders that we wish or with the kinds of limitations that we would like to have. It wouldn't be an empty declaration. If he declares statehood, he will ask recognition from nations of the world, and most of the world will immediately recognize...