On Saturday evening Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak spoke to TIME senior writer Lisa Beyer by phone from his private residence in Kochav Yair, north of Tel Aviv.
--Given your commitment to pursuing peace with the Palestinians, it must have been a difficult decision to attack facilities of the Palestinian Authority.
It was not simple. I promised that we would leave no stone unturned to find a partner for peace. And now I should tell you that with the same determination that we looked for a reasonable, honest peace of the brave, we will struggle if Chairman Arafat and the Palestinian...