Palestinian Quotes - Page 6

• We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.

  Naftali Bennett

  Giving Up, Cities, Agreement

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• Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Russia, Europe, France

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• Hey, here's a way to stop suicide bombings - give the Palestinians a bunch of missile-firing Apache helicopters and let them and the Israelis go at each other head to head. Four billion dollars a year to Israel - four billion dollars a year to the Palestinians - they can just blow each other up and leave the rest of us the hell alone.

  Michael Moore

  Suicide, Blow, Israel

  "Dude, Where's My Country?". Book by Michael Moore, 2003.

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• Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

  Tom Segev

  War, Egypt, Uprising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.

  Tom Segev

  Mistake, Thinking, Uprising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that's the Palestinian authority. I think they're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Two, Safety

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Running, Authority, Entity

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• What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government, Israel, Firsts

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• Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Palestinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Peace, Israel, Occupation

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• There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.

  Yair Lapid

  Change, Wind, Issues

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• The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Causes, Results

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Organization, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Style, Campaigns

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• We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.

  Samantha Power

  Needs, Way

  "Samantha Power's Nomination Hearing". Samantha Power's remarks at the hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., www.unwatch.org. July 17, 2013.

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• Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Class, Ideas, Going Away

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• Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on Palestinians' land instead. Moreover, Israel's rulers oppose any development-such as an Iranian-U.S. detente-that could diminish Israel's U.S.-financed hegemony in the region. War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his hawkish American allies-the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq war and ISIS-must be repudiated.

  Sheldon Richman

  War, Isis, Iran

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• ...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Past, Today, Injustice

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• We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Gun, Cities, House

  "U.S. Warns Americans Against Mideast Travel". "CNN Saturday Morning News", www.cnn.com. August 11, 2001.

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• Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.

  Avi Dichter

  Israel, Needs, Initiative

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• There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Organization, Leader, Weapons

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• What's going to be hard for the United States is that our policy for a long time has been a two-state solution; the Palestinians should have their own state. Now, the Palestinians are going to the U.N. and saying, 'We're having the U.N. vote to say we have our own state. Well, if that's your policy, United States of America, why are you vetoing it?' Which we will do.

  Bill Maher

  Should Have, Two, America

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• Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.

  John Pilger

  Military, Israel, Middle East

  Source: progressive.org

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• Today, especially, it's a really unclear situation in terms of where the Israelis are at, and where the Palestinians are at, the world is kind of changing around us.

  Eran Riklis

  World, Today, Kind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Obama has some manacles, and that might limit him. However, he's the first American president to raise $600 million for his campaign. That frees him from lobbyists; it frees him from special interests, and it could free him from those who would manipulate him. If he is going to solve the problem, he has to be free enough to solve the problem between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Special, President, Problem

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I hated the culture, I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.

  Sharif Abdel Kouddous

  Reading, Writing, Luck

  Source: progressive.org

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