Palestinian Quotes - Page 18

• I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

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• I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.

  Uri Avnery

  People, Conscious, Importance

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.

  Saeb Erekat

  Army, Air, People

  Interview With Mark Davis, www.sbs.com.au. August 23, 2013.

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• The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers, that's all they have. The Israelis... they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world. The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both sides are involved in terrorism.

  Ted Turner

  Suicide, Powerful, Military

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Fighting, Hands

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• I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.

  Saeb Erekat

  Mean, Law, Goal

  "Palestinian Negotiator On Netanyahu And A Palestinian State". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 20, 2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to conduct mass killings. And when they can, they murder children, teenagers, shoot them in the head. Throw people from the sixth floor, their own people. ... They're the enemies of peace, they're the enemies of Israel, they're the enemies of all civilized countries. And I believe they're the enemies of the Palestinians themselves.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Children, Teenager

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.

  Ehud Olmert

  Israel, Israeli

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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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• 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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