Palestinian Quotes - Page 2

• The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Government, Law, Issues

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• The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

  Chris Hedges

  Violence, Language, Speak

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• Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Israel, Land, Support

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• The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Rights, Suffering, Different

  Transcript of Mahmoud Abbas Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.

  Yasser Arafat

  Jerusalem, States

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes, recently it is indeed a clash between wrong and wrong. It is not as simple as fascism was.

  Amos Oz

  Black And White, Simple, Tragedy

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

  Alice Walker

  Israel, People, Territory

  "Letter from Alice Walker to Publishers at Yediot Books". www.pacbi.org. June 9, 2012.

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• There is no such thing as a Palestinian.

  Golda Meir

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• Everybody has to move, run and grab as many [Palestinian] hilltops as they can to enlarge the [Jewish] settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them.

  Ariel Sharon

  Running, Moving, Israel

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• The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Struggle, Islamic, Mean

  "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden". "Trouw", March 31, 1977.

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• We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Israel, Land, People

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• Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Hands, Branches

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Israel, Hands, Population

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• The old will die and the young will forget.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Forget, Young, Zionist

  "The great catastrophe" by Karma Nabulsi, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Believe, Government, Middle East

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

  Steven Spielberg

  Arab Israeli Conflict, Conflict, Israeli

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• Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Support, West, Economic

  "The Arab Role in Making Peace" by Edgar Bronfman, Sr., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2010.

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• I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Suffering, Killing

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• I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people. I believe there is no way around this: We have to have a solution based on two national states, which will hopefully live and grow together and establish a relationship between them in something like a European Union.

  Uri Avnery

  Believe, Two, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Mother, Women, Flower

  "Letter from America: Israeli Jews, Hate Crime and Hate Speech" by Dr. Habib Siddiqui, asiantribune.com. July 27, 2014.

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• The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

  Ehud Barak

  Israel, Giving, Cleansing

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• We do not recognize the right of the Palestinian Arabs to rule the country, since Palestine is still undeveloped and awaits its builders.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Palestine, Builder

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• I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

  Michael Franti

  Years, Gaza Strip, Iraq

  "On the Side of the Peacemakers". Interview with Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. March 13, 2006.

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• We do not seek an agreement with the [Palestinian] Arabs in order to secure the peace. Of course we regard peace as an essential thing. It is impossible to build up the country in a state of permanent warfare. But peace for us is a mean, and not an end. The end is the fulfillment of Zionism in its maximum scope. Only for this reason do we need peace, and do we need an agreement.

  David

  Country, Mean, Agreement

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• The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own during the days of the first and second Temples. . . We are given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings. This is MORE than a state, government and sovereignty----this is national consolidation in a free homeland.

  David

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

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