Oluyormuş, buyrun. Röportajdan bir kaç kritik noktadan alıntı yapayım:Q: There is a perception that if President Bush rang you and told you to stop that you would respond. Are the Americans and yourselves completely eye to eye on the way things are progressing?…It’s not just the President, it’s the United States of America. And you know what, it’s far beyond even an issue of an immediate interest, it is a commonality of values. It is precisely that which has been emphasised by Tony Blair, which is why I think there is such a deep friendship between America and Great Britain and between these three countries.We all share the same commitment to the basic values of democracy, of equality, of tolerance and that we are ready to fight for these principles.Q: But there is a sense in the world, and you must be aware of it, of lack of “proportionality”. Many people question how after two soldiers kidnapped and eight killed by Hezbollah we are now seeing upwards of 400 dead and rising in Lebanon. How can such an initial incident justify such a huge response from Israel?…What are we talking about? More than a million Israelis are sitting 22 days in shelters because of the fear of terrorists. In every single case…that we kill an uninvolved civilian in Lebanon, we consider it as a failure for Israel. And you know how many Israelis raise their voices as a result of this? And they don’t have to because we feel that we failed when we killed uninvolved people.The difference between us and Hezbollah is that when we kill innocent people we consider it a failure, when they kill innocent people they consider it a success……And by the way, how do you really know that 400 innocent civilians were killed? How do you know who is innocent and who is not? Why? This is not an army. They don’t wear uniforms that distinguish them from other civilians. We didn’t attack any of the Christian quarters of Beirut. We didn’t attack any of the Christian residential areas in any part of Lebanon. We attacked only those areas where they had the Katyusha launchers, where they had the missile launchers, where they had the command positions of Hezbollah, where they had the storage houses, the logistic centres and so on and so forth.So the fact that people were killed there who were not dressed in uniforms doesn’t mean that they were innocent civilians. There were Hezbollah people, they are the terrorists. Did you ever see terrorists dressed with military uniforms like we have in our army? No.Q: Do you miss him? [Ariel Sharon]A: As a friend and as an experienced political leader. As someone who’s been through almost everything in his life and the different experiences that Israel had, it could have been great had I been able to consult with him, sure.Q: How has the military campaign gone?They just need a few operators without even uniforms that can press the button of the timer, of the launcher and then with a motorcycle go to another launcher and press the timer again and then to a third and press the timer again and then you have 50 rockets falling on different parts of your country and then they hide in bunkers and caves that they built for years.Q: How much longer is left – days? weeks?A: I don’t think it will take weeks. I think that a resolution will be made sometime next week by the UN Security Council and then it depends on the rapidity of deployment of the international forces into the south of Lebanon.Obviously, as I said, we will not pull out and we will not stop shooting until there is an international force that will effectively control the area.Q: How important is it to get Muslim and Arab armies as part of the international force?A: I think it is very important. I will be happy to see Turkish soldiers. We have a lot of respect for the Turkish army and the Turkish government.Adres için Kerem‘e teşekkürler, Türkçe’ye yarın çevireceğim.