Palestinian Quotes - Page 26

• The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Land, People, Israeli Occupation

  Partners for Peace interview, March 15, 2006.

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• Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Islamic, Cocktails, Radical

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• The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians

  Bernard Membe

  Fighting, Rights, Land

  "Tanzania touts Middle East peace". Daily News (dailynews.co.tz), November 30, 2010.

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• I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

  Clare Short

  Believe, People, Division

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• We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Support, World, Resistance

  "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate". The Pittsburgh Press, August 3, 1986.

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• Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands.... I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands.

  Thomas Friedman

  Believe, Giving, Demand

  "New York Times", December 10, 1986.

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• I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Justice, Trying

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize the rights of the refugees to return to Israel. Hamas will have a position if this occurs.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Rights, Israel, Borders

  "'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea'". www.washingtonpost.com. February 26, 2006.

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• This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.

  Riyad Mansour

  Fashion, Creativity, Community

  "Fashion models strut in United Nations debate chambers" by Lorenzo Ferrigno, www.cnn.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Giving, Islam, Territory

  "Israel's PM Netanyahu: No Palestinian state on my watch". edition.cnn.com. March 16, 2015.

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• I am defending the Jews to prevent them from becoming extinct, because they are doomed to become extinct if they continue this way.... I am convinced that the solution is to establish a democratic state for the Jews and the Palestinians, a state that will be called Palestine, Isratine, or whatever they want. This is the fundamental solution, or else the Jews will be annihilated in the future, because the Palestinians have [strategic] depth.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Way, Becoming, Depth

  Al Jazeera, March 27, 2007.

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• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Opportunity, Agribusiness, Fields

  "The Regional Economics of Peace" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.

  Yair Lapid

  Change, Moving, Agreement

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• A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Two, Goal, Nukes

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

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• First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Thinking, Firsts, Conflict

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• The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Running, Israel, Land

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• Everybody is somebody's Jew.

  Primo Levi

  Today, Jew

  "A strike against silence" by Antony Lerman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2009.

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• I was protected behind the walls of my house, the walls of the mosque and later, walls of my school. I didn't know that I was Palestinian. I knew that I was a girl, but the identity issues came later when I was 12 or 13 - then, they came in a very strong way.

  Rula Jebreal

  Girl, Strong, Wall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Law, Justice, Risk

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• I am not at all sure we could ever reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians' present leadership. We shall have to wait for the next generation. The most we could expect is, perhaps, another interim agreement. A Palestinian state? A permanent settlement? I do not see that happening in the coming years.

  Shaul Mofaz

  Agreement, Years, Waiting

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• I think the first time I really felt that I was Palestinian was a time when I was trying to go back to school with my father at night and there was a curfew for Palestinians. My father said, "I will walk first, but you have to understand, the police will not let me go... So keep moving and don't look at me and don't look back."

  Rula Jebreal

  Father, Moving, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations atlast acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and sadness that we lost half of the country, Judea and Samaria, and , in addition, that we [would] have[in our state] 400,000 [Palestinian] Arabs.

  David

  Country, Heart, Sadness

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• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Pyramids, One Day, Might

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• When an 18-year-old Palestinian girl is persuaded to blow herself up, and in doing so she kills a 17-year-old Israeli girl, we are watching the future itself die!

  George W. Bush

  Girl, Blow, Years

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• There are women (some men, too, but mostly women) who are going to the occupied Palestinian territories to stand with the victims of Israeli occupation. These are very courageous Israeli women and some British and American women. That's something quite new.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Israeli Occupation, Territory

  Source: www.madre.org

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