Palestinian Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don't want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don't believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate from the Palestinians so that we can control our own destinies.

  Ehud Olmert

  Believe, Reality, Destiny

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• The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.

  Randall Price

  Contrast, Refugee

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• Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.

  Kofi Annan

  Europe, People, Holocaust

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.120, Routledge

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• If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Agreement, Ifs

  "Albright: Time running out on Mideast peace". www.cnn.com. October 6, 1998.

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• 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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• As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

  Elliott Abrams

  America, Doubt, Pay

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• You need a visualization of the outside obstacle and what can be better than a wall. For the Palestinians it means a division from each other, because the wall didn't separate Palestinians from Israelis, it separated them from themselves. This is the reality, and the wall is a kind of jail to the Palestinians.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Wall, Mean, Reality

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Flames, Play, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Agreement, Sides, Negotiation

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• Netanyahu adheres to his old position: He doesn't want a Palestinian state, and he doesn't want to give up the settlements and the occupied territories. Pressure from abroad is the only way to change anything.

  Tom Segev

  Giving Up, Want, Territory

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated for 10 years and accepted difficult and humiliating agreements, and in the end didn't get anything except authority over the people, and no authority over land, or sovereignty.

  Marwan Barghouti

  Agreement, Years, Land

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• In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders. We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Government, Agreement

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• Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.

  Saeb Erekat

  Civilization, Israel, Sick

  "Israel putting services in place in West Bank, Gaza" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

  Ari Shavit

  Moving, Responsibility, Maturity

  "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

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• Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  Lying, Doubt, Doe

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• The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace.

  Noam Chomsky

  Land, People, Security

  Interview with Ahmed Nassef, April 29, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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