Palestinian Quotes - Page 16

• Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Israel, Land, Would Be

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• The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

  Robert Fisk

  Uniforms, Victim, Conviction

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• If the Palestinians took up arms, went into Israel and killed all the Jews, it'd be alright

  Professor Griff

  Israel, Arms, Jew

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• Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

  Uri Avnery

  Religious, Atheist, Struggle

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• In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's two sides to every question. That doesn't mean that sometimes one side has done something wrong and should not be condemned. But it does mean there's always two sides to an issue. I say the same thing to my Jewish friends, which is you have to see the perspective of the Palestinians. Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Eye, Two Sides

  "Obama Holds a Town Hall in Istanbul". www.washingtonpost.com. April 7, 2009.

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• Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Israel, Play, Differences

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• Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

  Lois Capps

  Israel, Authority, Should

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• Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.

  Yasser Arafat

  Girl, Boys, Stones

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• The sun shines directly on this great country, and it can be harvested, it's not owned by anybody. It's something the Jews and the Palestinians share and could work together to make the whole world a better place, not just this Middle East stuff, but the whole world.

  Sarah Silverman

  Country, Israel, Shining

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• If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terror attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you only cry out for Gaza, then you are not Pro Human Rights, you are only Anti-Israel.

  Hillel Neuer

  Children, Past, Rights

  "Test yourself: Are you pro human rights, or just anti-Israel?". blog.unwatch.org. July 15, 2014.

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• I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.

  Mona Hatoum

  People, Identity, Culture

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• You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Thinking, Israel, Giving

  "One-on-one with Prime Minister Netanyahu". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

  Barack Obama

  Friendship, Israel, World

  Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

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• You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

  John Podhoretz

  Israel, Two, Roots

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• The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

  Bill Richardson

  Two, Together, United States

  "Richardson: President gives us a path forward". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. September 04, 2012.

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• Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Done, Lebanon, Jordan

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• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Jobs, People, Helping

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• I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Israel, Years, Europe

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• Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'

  Salman Rushdie

  Crazy, Steps, Terrorism

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• I realized that an artist seeking to tell the truth in her art takes great courage. I recognize the courage required to bring children together from Israeli and Palestinian communities to find commonality in music as a very powerful and effective beginning towards Peace.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Children, Powerful

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• President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Children, Believe, Years

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• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Real, Hands

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• By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Doubt, Literature

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• Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

  Edward Said

  War, Writing, Thinking

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• From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Independent, People, Withdrawal

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