Bill Clinton: “Well, that's not what I said. Prime Minister Rabin. Well, allow me first to make it clear. In the agreement, once it…”

“Well, that's not what I said. Prime Minister Rabin. Well, allow me first to make it clear. In the agreement, once it will be reached and signed, there is a building--in the past it was 8,000 to 9,000 men as a Palestinian police force in Gaza and Jericho. If by now agreement has been reached, by now there would have been 8,000, 9,000 Palestinian policemen in Gaza and Jericho. The more the negotiations are postponed, the longer it will take them to come. Second, even if there will be some Palestinian police--and there were in the past. At least 900 Palestinian police in the territories were Palestinian residents of the territories in Hebron and in Ramallah and in Nablus. They resigned because of the Intifada. As long as ours is the overall responsibility for the territories under the military government, using our civil administration, their presence will not relieve us from our overall responsibility. Therefore, we have to look at it in the context of what is our international and practical responsibility. We, as long as agreement will not be reached that will cover all these areas with the PLO, we will remain internationally responsible to the security of all those who reside there, if there will be or will not be part of any Palestinian police. They will have to come under the control of the government there, and the government is the military government of Israel. Therefore, you can't have separate armed groups. There must be one chain of command of those who have to keep and maintain law and order. Russia”