Palestinian Quotes - Page 25

• The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.

  Said Seyam

  Political, Would Be, Occupation

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• Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

  Ilana Mercer

  Military, Mistake, Weakness

  "Liar, Liar, Abaya on Fire". www.wnd.com. April 17, 2002.

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• The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.

  Xi Jinping

  Issues, People, Suffering

  "China Rebukes Israel Ahead of Netanyahu Visit". edition.cnn.com. May 07, 2013.

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• It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions are staining the star of David with blood. The Jewish people, whose gifts to civilised discourse include Einstein and Epstein, Mendelssohn and Mahler, Sergei Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, are now symbolised throughout the world by the blustering bully Ariel Sharon, a war criminal implicated in the murder of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila camps and now involved in killing Palestinians once again.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Stars, War, Government

  Speech to the House of Commons, April 2002.

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• I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue.... It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.

  Lee Hsien Loong

  Heart, Israel, Iraq

  "President Bush Welcomes Prime Minister Lee of Singapore to the White House". The White House Press Release, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 04, 2007.

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• Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.

  Dennis Miller

  Ideas, Bombs, Tick

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• The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Sabotage, Wanted, Reconciliation

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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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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• There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going to continue to be "Fortress Israel"? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Spring, Moving Forward

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicidal, Rights, Israel

  "Jimmy Carter takes on Israel’s Apartheid Policies and the Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

  Clare Short

  Believe, People, Division

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• To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.

  Ken Livingstone

  Government, People, Nazism

  "This is about Israel, not anti-semitism" by Ken Livingstone, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2005.

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• Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Christian, War, Together

  "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: An Interview with Iran's Agitator". Interview with Scott Macleod, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.

  Woody Allen

  People, Childhood, Different

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fighting, Swear To God, Giving

  OneJerusalem.org, January 21, 2002.

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• Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, June, Sea

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• What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, Kuwait, People

  "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh, www.nytimes.com. August 1, 2010.

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• 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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• When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Land, Practice

  "Interview: Desmond Tutu on gay rights, the Middle East and Pope Francis". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Justice, Trying

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu Loves Pope Francis, Speaks On Gay Rights, War in Syria, Accusations Of Anti-Semitism". Interview With Sarah Pulliam Bailey, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Land, People, Israeli Occupation

  Partners for Peace interview, March 15, 2006.

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• The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize the rights of the refugees to return to Israel. Hamas will have a position if this occurs.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Rights, Israel, Borders

  "'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea'". www.washingtonpost.com. February 26, 2006.

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• Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

  Jacob T. Schwartz

  Islamic, Cocktails, Radical

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• The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians

  Bernard Membe

  Fighting, Rights, Land

  "Tanzania touts Middle East peace". Daily News (dailynews.co.tz), November 30, 2010.

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• We [Libyans] support the Palestinian resistance, and all the world supports this. We support their just cause, but we are against terrorism.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Support, World, Resistance

  "Gadhafi, the man the world loves to hate". The Pittsburgh Press, August 3, 1986.

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