Palestinian Quotes - Page 19

• Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing... Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, People, Political

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.

  Ehud Olmert

  Couple, Mean, Fire

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• There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

  Jane Harman

  Leadership, Thinking, Benches

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

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• I don't think for example that the Indians look at [what is right and what is wrong] that way [the Palestinians do]. There are a billion, 200 million people in that part of the world. Why? They suffer from terror. People that do not suffer from it don't understand what I'm talking about, you know?

  Shimon Peres

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, People, Unfair

  Source: collider.com

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• The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that

  Julian Schnabel

  Stories, Done, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

  Ehud Olmert

  Israel, Israeli

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• This president's committed to taking steps to move the Middle East peace process forward, to bringing the two parties to the table to negotiate a lasting peace. That is the only way that a two-state solution can be achieved that provides the security that Israel deserves and needs and the sovereignty that the Palestinian people seek.

  Jay Carney

  Party, Moving, Israel

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• The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, People, Borders

  "Is President Obama betraying Israel?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. March 02, 2015.

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• The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. ... Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Two, Sides

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has gobbled up almost all of Palestinian land with its illegal settlements. To talk about justice in that battle, you have to talk about those settlements. But, if you just talk about human rights, then you can say, "Oh, Hamas violates human rights," "Israel violates human rights." Ergo, both are bad.

  Arundhati Roy

  Land, Rights, Israel

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

  Natan Sharansky

  Leadership, Simple, Reform

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• The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

  George Carey

  Suicide, Bombers, Plight

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". Interview with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily nationalistic, secular. Now, suddenly we are seeing the election of a religious party with extreme political ideologies and with a social agenda that seems inconsistent with the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Religious, Party, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• The priorities for the new Palestinian government is the economy. If Hamas cannot pay salaries when they form the government, there will be a collapse. People cannot afford to have that happen; there is nothing for people to fall back on. If people go hungry, there will be chaos - not just instability, but a breakdown. And there will be violence with a spillover effect. This is crucial to understand.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Fall, People, Priorities

  Source: progressive.org

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• There is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Fighting, Terror

  "Rice: Israel and Palestinian Authority must work as partners". www.cnn.com. June 12, 2003.

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• Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

  Ruth Wisse

  Israel, People, Misery

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• The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots

  Nelson Mandela

  Home, Two, Way

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• The Palestinians cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves

  Joan Rivers

  People, Rockets

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• I think people need to see on both sides. Seeing how the people in the Palestinian Territories can't move around - it's a maze now, with the wall, the road blocks and everything else. It takes you hours to get from one person's house to your job or to a friend or even to the hospital if someone's hurt. Then you go into Israel and see in Tel Aviv, where they have 12-18 bomb threats a day, which are real. It completely disrupts their life. Or Sderot where bombs are falling daily from the sky fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Hurt, Jobs, Wall

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Children, Eye, Blood

  Remark to Palestinians upon signing of the IsraelPalestine Declaration, Washington, D.C., 13 Sept. 1993

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• The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Support, West, Firsts

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• The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Michael Leunig

  Giving, Balance, Tasks

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• China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state.

  Jiang Zemin

  Independent, Rights, People

  "Israel, Palestinians to resume direct negotiations". www.cnn.com. July 13, 1998.

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• We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

  Silvan Shalom

  Believe, Agreement, Two

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