Palestinian Quotes - Page 25

• As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or a state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is reality but I don’t deal with it from the point of view of recognizing or admitting it.

  Khaled Mashal

  Reality, Israel, Land

  "Q&A with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal". Reuters Intervie, www.reuters.com. January 21, 2007.

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• The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.

  Said Seyam

  Political, Would Be, Occupation

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• Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

  Ilana Mercer

  Military, Mistake, Weakness

  "Liar, Liar, Abaya on Fire". www.wnd.com. April 17, 2002.

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• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Military, Israel, Cities

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

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• The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.

  Xi Jinping

  Issues, People, Suffering

  "China Rebukes Israel Ahead of Netanyahu Visit". edition.cnn.com. May 07, 2013.

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• If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Air, Water, Alive

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• Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Independent, Israel, Doe

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Leader, Want, Making Peace

  "PM Slams Gaza Probe, Challenges UN to Confront Iran". Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to the United Nations General Assembly, www.haaretz.com. September 24, 2009.

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• Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.

  Jimmy Carter

  Israel, Agreement, Land

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.753, Simon and Schuster

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• When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Land, Practice

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Israel, Numbers, Peaceful

  "IAEA Chief: Israel the Real Rogue Nuclear State". glossynews.com. October 08, 2009.

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• What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, Kuwait, People

  "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh, www.nytimes.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, June, Sea

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• I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fighting, Swear To God, Giving

  OneJerusalem.org, January 21, 2002.

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• The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.

  Woody Allen

  People, Childhood, Different

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Christian, War, Together

  "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: An Interview with Iran's Agitator". Interview with Scott Macleod, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• When someone comes under abuse or attack a characteristic response is to blame yourself, especially if you are locked into a relationship of being attacked regularly, and making apologies for your abuser. It actually affects Christians living in Islamic circumstances more, and one Palestinian Christian spoke about that problem of needing to defend Islam in order to protect yourself.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Islamic, Apology

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Israel, Moral

  "Moral clarity in Gaza" by Charles Krauthammer, www.jewishworldreview.com. January 2, 2009.

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• To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.

  Ken Livingstone

  Government, People, Nazism

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Spring, Moving Forward

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• In the hyper-sensitised reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.

  Jane Fonda

  Mean, Reality, Israel

  "Jane Fonda apologises over Toronto petition" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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• Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Return, Palestinian Refugees, Referring

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• The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.

  Moshe Ya'alon

  People, Consciousness, Defeated

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• My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Home, Grandmother, Government

  "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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• It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicidal, Rights, Israel

  "Jimmy Carter takes on Israel’s Apartheid Policies and the Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2006.

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