Palestinian Quotes - Page 21

• As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation end. And then it is up to the Palestinians themselves to decide what they want.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Determination, Rights, Self

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The era of a Palestinian state is over.

  Naftali Bennett

  Eras, States

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state.

  Naftali Bennett

  Opportunity, Israel, Victory

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The key is Jerusalem. If it is divided even a portion given to Palestinians - we will witness God's wrath outpoured in a measure unknown to mankind. If the US sponsors or demands such a move, America will be in a financial depression worse than the 1930's.

  David Wilkerson

  Moving, America, Keys

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• There will be no Palestinian state

  Max Blumenthal

  States

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• I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.

  Jeremy Bowen

  Israel, Use, Shields

  "Jeremy Bowen's Gaza notebook: I saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields". Article by Jeremy Bowen, www.newstatesman.com. July 22, 2014.

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• The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders.

  Van Jones

  Color, Years, Rights

  "Wartimes: Reports From The Opposition". Studio album by Van Jones and Mumia Abu-Jamal, www.powerlineblog.com. 2003.

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• I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, America, Australia

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• The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

  Bruce Dern

  Country, Real, Progress

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• Palestinians are a hard-working and an incredible community. They have done remarkably well outside their country. I have never met a poor Palestinian in the United States; every Palestinian I know is a college professor or a doctor.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Hard Work, College

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• I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Hopeful, Injustice, Israeli

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.

  Amos Oz

  Israel, People, Twenties

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

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• The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism

  Ali Abunimah

  Rights, Agreement, Order

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• I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.

  Ehud Olmert

  Block, Mistake, Independent

  Source: content.time.com

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• We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.

  Colin Powell

  People, Judging, Leader

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

  Colin Powell

  Leader, United States, Authority

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Long, Palestinian Refugees, Israeli

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Independent, Rights

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

  Yasser Arafat

  Reality, Facts, Five

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• When American administration will find that their interest is to follow up with the international conference and to find peace in this area, they will search not only for me, but for any Palestinian to speak with him. And they will say, "We have five million Arabs in the United States. We can't avoid them."

  Yasser Arafat

  United States, Administration, Speak

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Israel, People, Skins

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• In terms of what is the solution is going forward, in my view, it is the grassroots human-rights groups - both Israeli and Palestinian - that are doing exactly what needs to be done, which is building trust, developing relationships and building that sense of common community which is essential if we're going to figure out how to move forward.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Rights, Views

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.

  Walid Shoebat

  Stars, Flags, Jerusalem

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• What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

  Russell Means

  Europe, United States, Movement

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• The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Party, Scotch, Champion

  "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett, www.abc.net.au. August 16, 2009.

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