Briefing by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to Turkish journalists on March 4, 2008:
“The good news is that on the other side we found ourselves in the same camp with nations, states, and leaders with whom we may have had some conflicts in the past. We have Israel. We have Turkey. We have the Palestinian Authority, represented by Salam Fayyad, Abu Mazen, and Abu Ala, who are part of the national Palestinian movement but believe in the idea of a two-state solution; this is something I believe is legitimate enough to discuss and not to fight about. We have, of course, Egypt, which needs to address its own extreme radical elements. We have Jordan and the Gulf States. The Gulf States, as part of the Arab and Muslim world, understand today that the threat comes not from Israel but from Iran. They know that the Iranian regime undermines their own regimes, that the Iranians work with radical elements within their own states. They know that the world cannot afford Iran with nuclear weapons. And they understand that they, as a region, cannot afford Iran starting to become a more international, regional player because of the threat it represents.”