Gaza Quotes - Page 3

• Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Israel, Numbers, Peaceful

  "IAEA Chief: Israel the Real Rogue Nuclear State". glossynews.com. October 08, 2009.

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• Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Independent, Israel, Doe

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

  Michael Franti

  Song, War, Thinking

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• For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

  James Buchan

  Suicide, Giving, Victory

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

  Saeb Erekat

  Gun, Violence, Impossible

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• Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position within the world and an inexorable demographic decline. The operation in Gaza
  is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision with which I identify, which once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.

  Jonathan Chait

  Wings, Two, Political

  "Israel Is Making It Hard To Be Pro-Israel". Article by Jonathan Chait, nymag.com. July 29, 2014.

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• I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

  Helen Thomas

  War, Israel, Passing On

  "'An Unconscionable Legacy'–Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas on the Bush Presidency". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. January 13, 2009.

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• I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.

  Jeremy Bowen

  Israel, Use, Shields

  "Jeremy Bowen's Gaza notebook: I saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields". Article by Jeremy Bowen, www.newstatesman.com. July 22, 2014.

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• But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic – and in some cases clearly false – statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Israel, Iran, Nuclear

  "Elizabeth Warren Finally Speaks on Israel/Gaza, Sounds Like Netanyahu". readersupportednews.org. August 28, 2014.

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• They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't describe their withdrawal from here...as a gift for the Palestinians. This is because they are defeated here. HAMAS will never recognize the existence of a Jewish State in the region.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Islamic, Israel, People

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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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• I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Israel, Two

  "The US and Israel Stand Alone". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2006.

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• Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now he is going to leave. That is because of the 'effective armed struggle'.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Islamic, Struggle, Years

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• From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Independent, People, Withdrawal

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• We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Commitment, Issues, Troops

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Israel’s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

  Yitzhak Shamir

  Israel, Gaza Strip, Gone

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

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• The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.

  Barack Obama

  Hard Work, Reflection, Israel

  Remarks As Prepared for Delivery by President Barack Obama, Address to the United Nations General Assembly, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2014.

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• The Israeli-Palestinian problem becomes very acute with Gaza dominated by Hamas. With the possibility of the conflict escalating, not only in terms of Gaza but also the Hezbollah and Lebanon, with the continuing crisis in Iraq, which is very dynamic and unpredictable and which could get out of hand, and maybe even escalate and enlarge.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Hands, Iraq, Hezbollah

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• It's easy enough to predict that there will be conflict, but you place yourself in a maelstrom when you offer a view about the conflict, and I don't have an investment in one side or the other; I feel compassion for both sides. I've spent a fair amount of time in Gaza and Israel, done a lot of reporting and lived over there, and the tragedy is sometimes overwhelming. At the same time, America does have an investment in what happens.

  Lawrence Wright

  Compassion, Tragedy, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When people see what is happening in Gaza, that can't make you too fond of the perpetrators - the Israelis. If you are a Muslim and you look at what is happening there, it fills you with a lot of resentment. Especially if you are weak, then you are nursing these grudges and you are increasing in bitterness and look for a chance to get your own back.

  Desmond Tutu

  Nursing, People, Looks

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

  Fatou Bensouda

  War, Political, Criminals

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• Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Israel, Land, Support

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• Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

  Dennis Prager

  Running, Organization, Freedom Of Speech

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• All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

  Ramsay MacMullen

  Christian, Cities, Numbers

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• Clearly, we are very, very concerned about the situation, for instance, that has been going on in Gaza.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Situation, Instance, Concerned

  Source: www.gov.za

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