Palestinian Quotes - Page 20

• Big efforts should be made to integrate Israel's Arab citizens into the fabric of the Israeli society and the Israeli economy. That's really the key to any further progress to do with the Palestinians beyond Israel's borders.

  Moshe Arens

  Keys, Israel, Effort

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Suicide, Children, Islamic

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• The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Islamic, Adventure

  "Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

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• The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Organization, Decision, Infrastructure

  "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

  Silvan Shalom

  Israel, States, Terrorist

  "Extended Interview With Silvan Shalom". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. February 1, 2004.

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• It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

  Mark Steyn

  Israel, Hamas, Arafat

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• Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Israel, Self

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• Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

  Shimon Peres

  Religious, Israel, Middle East

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The Palestinians don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.

  John Pilger

  Order, Oil, Upset

  Source: progressive.org

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• I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948.

  Jimmy Carter

  Rights, Israel, Years

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• The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country - very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people.

  Amos Oz

  Country, Land, Two

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is forbidden that this harm the continued struggle against the Zionist enemy. Cooperation and understanding between the P.L.O. and the rejectionist organizations is what will lead to the speedy retreat of Israel from the occupied territories in the first stage, until the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Only a state like that can then continue the struggle to remove the enemy from all Palestinian lands.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Israel, Order

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• When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.

  Khaled Mashal

  Determination, Rights, Israel

  Interview with Jeremy Bowen, news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.

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• No Palestinian, young or old, would be frightened by these Israeli tactics.

  Mohammed Dahlan

  Would Be, Tactics, Frightened

  "Islamic Jihad member killed in phone booth explosion", www.cnn.com. April 5, 2001.

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• I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is the first step in establishing the state, and therefore it should be implemented.

  Yasser Arafat

  Agreement, People, Cairo

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• Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Independent, Flags

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• Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.

  Yousef Munayyer

  Police, Soldier, Prison

  Source: kalamu.com

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• You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the Palestinians to understand why Israel is behaving the way it does: What is the legacy of the Holocaust, what are the fears of average Jewish people?

  Uri Avnery

  Israel, Average, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity.

  Uri Avnery

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• When I say something, I mean it. The world needs to have a Palestinian state that is free and at peace.

  Bill Hemmer

  Mean, Needs, World

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• How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to return to the Palestinian state, and allowing a number of refugees to settle, with general compensation, where they want to settle? It is not an abstract problem. It involves four million human beings, and more than fifty years of various sorts of misery. But it is not an insolvable problem. It involves some good will, and a readiness to give up historic myths on both sides.

  Uri Avnery

  Giving Up, Numbers, Israel

  Source: progressive.org

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• Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.

  George Habash

  Rivers, East, Jordan

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• What I hear from many people on all sides of the political spectrum is that Palestine has been so carved up now that it's very hard to imagine how a two-state solution is possible. So that's what I hear many experts say, but I myself am not committing one way or the other at this point. I do feel like it's really important to allow the Israelis and Palestinians to begin rehumanizing each other and to move forward from there.

  Jill Stein

  Moving, Two, People

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Home, Government, Political Will

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It's not for me to say from the outside what the Palestinian people should have. That would be very arrogant.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Should Have, People, Would Be

  Source: www.progressive.org

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