Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke on the phone with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday evening and thanked her for her efforts to enlarge the USA's assistance to Israel and to secure a "political horizon" between Israel and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria.
Barak's bureau told reporters that he "repeated his well known position" that while the daily lives of Arabs in Judea and Samaria needs to be made as easy as possible, the security of Israel's citizens is "our primary and supreme worry and duty."