Palestinian Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice.

  Michal Rovner

  Morning, Nice, Evening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Bibi Netanyahu, froze the settlements and offered to go toward a two-state solution. The Palestinians didn't take him up on it. Historically, we have had a series of these offers. And the settlements themselves are not the keystone here. It seems to me myopic and bizarre that at the last moment, the Barack Obama administration would surrender the whole balanced array of policies that are obstacles to peace and focus on the one that is most detrimental to Israel.

  David Brooks

  Focus, Obstacles, Moments

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places - Darfur, Rwanda, even Colombia - where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Memories, Moving, Funeral

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A majority of Israelis want to give up the West Bank for peace, and obviously the same thing is desired by the Palestinians. The strong voice of the president of the United States will have a major impact on public opinion, not only in this country, but also in Israel and also in Palestine.

  Reza Aslan

  Country, Strong, Giving Up

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians.

  Edward Said

  War, Israel, United States

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

  Sayed Kashua

  Fighting, People, One Day

  "'It's A Surviving Tool': 'Native' Tells Satirical Stories Of Life In Israel". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. February 12, 2016.

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• What Hamas and the Palestinian people are doing is legitimate resistance against the Israeli occupation. Our resistance is confined to the territories inside Palestine and only targets the Israeli occupation. We are not blood-mongering killers who kill innocent people around the world.

  Khaled Mashal

  People, World, Innocent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am personally committed to helping Israelis and Palestinians achieve a peace agreement. With determination, compromise, and the belief that peace is possible, Israelis and Palestinians can make a deal.

  Donald Trump

  Determination, Helping, Belief

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• Hamas' leadership needs new blood. I will continue to serve my people. But the presidency of the Palestinian Autonomous Authority is not a free, sovereign position - it is an office that is confined by the occupation. That's why this position is not interesting for Hamas.

  Khaled Mashal

  People, Interesting, Office

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Israelis have not been willing to take the crucial step, and that is to withdraw from the Palestinian territory, the West Bank. And this is a crucial point and Israel has not only kept increasing the settlements in number, but have built highways among all the settlements from which the Palestinians are now excluded.

  Reza Aslan

  Settlement

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• There are some who support us and others who are on the other side. They bow to pressure from the international community. But there is no reason for any of them to be against our Palestinian concerns. We don't interfere in any of the domestic policies of other countries. We are a national movement and we are concentrating on our conflict and the battle against the Israeli occupation.

  Khaled Mashal

  Country, Support, Community

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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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• I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.

  Shimon Peres

  Want, Election, Negotiation

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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