Palestinian Quotes - Page 14

• My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

  Frank Carson

  Ideas, People, House

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• I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunately, their voices are not necessarily heard as loudly as they should be.

  Julian Schnabel

  Voice, People, Who Cares

  "Julian Schnabel: Taking the flak". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2010.

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• Palestinians caged up like animals.

  Chuck Hagel

  Animal, Caged

  "Was Chuck Hagel ‘Just Plain Bad’ in His Confirmation Hearing?" by Robert Naiman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2013.

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• Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

  Chuck Hagel

  Men, Today, Desperate

  "Chuck Hagel and Israel in context: A guide to his controversial statements". www.washingtonpost.com. August 27, 1998.

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• Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

  Bob Hawke

  Real, War, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

  Daniel Pipes

  People, Miserable, Deserve

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• In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

  Silvan Shalom

  Independent, Views, World

  Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, School, Nurse

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

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• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Israel, Agreement, Organization

  Abbas UN speech: Annotated extracts, www.bbc.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Hands, World, Turn The Other Cheek

  "Giuliani Says City Won't Accept $10 Million Check From Saudi". www.nytimes.com. October 11, 2001.

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• Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Change, Land, Desire

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• Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Israel, Ideas

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• We don't differ with the government on the demands [on Iran], but we totally reject how Bibi is handling it. Bibi sacrificed good relations with the U.S. to keep the status quo on the Palestinians. He poked the [Obama] Administration in the eye on settlements just to appease right-wingers

  John F. Kerry

  Eye, Government, Israel

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• It is not suicide; it is martyrdom in the name of God. I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an indication of the justice of Allah almighty. Allah is just. Through his infinite wisdom, he has given the weak what the strong do not possess and that is the ability to turn their bodies into bombs as the Palestinians do.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Suicide, Strong, Israel

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• Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Nuts, Mutual Interest

  Dave Barry (2007). “Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)”, p.98, Penguin

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• I understand now my father really thought he was doing me good. Education means a lot to Palestinians. We’ve become some of the most educated people in the world through our diaspora. We’ve had to be. When you ain’t got land, your degree may be your only solid ground. May father felt (feels) that being a doctor would give me security. How can I explain that I’m not safe from anything if I don’t write?

  Suheir Hammad

  Father, Writing, Mean

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• If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.

  Jimmy Carter

  Israel, President, United Nations

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• Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?

  Susan Abulhawa

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Principles, Brooklyn, Jerusalem

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• On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Hands, People

  Speech in Cairo, www.nytimes.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Even if you meet the perfect person, it ain’t gonna be at the perfect time. You’re married, they’re single. That’s right. You’re Jewish, they’re Palestinian. You’re a Mexican, they’re a raccoon. You’re a black woman, he’s a black man.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Perfect, Mexican

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Independence, Realizing

  Barack Obama's Speech on the Middle East and North Africa, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 19, 2011.

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• At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

  Jane Harman

  Israel, Groups, Violence

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

  Daniel Pipes

  Defeat, Be Encouraged

  "Daniel Pipes, Peacemaker?". Mother Jones, May 2003.

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• I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.

  Helen Thomas

  Regret, Party, Heart

  "Helen Thomas 'Retires' After Anti-Israeli Jew Remarks". "The Two-way", www.npr.org. June 7, 2010.

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