Palestinian Quotes - Page 5

• Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Struggle, Doors, Leader

  "Fox News Sunday" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2002.

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• I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.

  Charles Schumer

  Giving, Trying, President

  "Schumer: Obama's 'counter-productive' Israel policy 'has to stop'" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.

  Sol Stern

  Rejection, Hatred, Compromise

  Sol Stern (2013). “A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred”, p.1938, Encounter Books

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• The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  World, Today, Tomorrow

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• ...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured--today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Past, Today, Injustice

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• We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  People, Majority, Want

  "Iran's Leader Joins Large Anti-Israel March". Sermon during a Friday prayer, www.washingtonpost.com. October 29, 2005.

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• The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.

  Ehud Olmert

  Cutting, Roles, World

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• The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

  Moshe Katsav

  Organization, Honor, Authority

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Interview with Farnoush Ram, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

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• There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Organization, Leader, Weapons

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• To me the notion that Palestinians are actually Jews is, I think, quite revelatory and very radical and a possible bridge that has been ignored, I think, in this entire controversy and there's ample evidence to support it.

  Lawrence Wright

  Thinking, Bridges, Support

  "Lawrence Wright brings Mideast conflict to stage". Interview with Lauri Neff, www.boston.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.

  Nader al-Masri

  Athlete, Optimistic, Achievement

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• The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  White, Becoming, Terrorism

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• We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.

  Ariel Sharon

  Military, Believe, Effort

  "Transcript: Ariel Sharon Interview", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2002.

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• Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Israel, Enemy, Allies

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• We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.

  Samantha Power

  Needs, Way

  "Samantha Power's Nomination Hearing". Samantha Power's remarks at the hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., www.unwatch.org. July 17, 2013.

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• We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Gun, Cities, House

  "U.S. Warns Americans Against Mideast Travel". "CNN Saturday Morning News", www.cnn.com. August 11, 2001.

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• I think that anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state and evacuate territory gives territory away to radical Islamist attacks against Israel.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Moving, Thinking, Israel

  "Netanyahu: If I'm Elected, There Will Be No Palestinian State". www.haaretz.com. March 16, 2015.

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• After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

  Elliott Abrams

  Terrorism

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• The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that's the Palestinian authority. I think they're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Two, Safety

  Source: piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com

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• Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Style, Campaigns

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• For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, Rejection, Effort

  "George Mitchell and King Abdullah II". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. May 22, 2011.

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• Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Class, Ideas, Going Away

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• Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on Palestinians' land instead. Moreover, Israel's rulers oppose any development-such as an Iranian-U.S. detente-that could diminish Israel's U.S.-financed hegemony in the region. War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his hawkish American allies-the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq war and ISIS-must be repudiated.

  Sheldon Richman

  War, Isis, Iran

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• Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Enemy, Important, Common

  "Arafat reluctantly accepts Israeli, U.S. security demand". www.cnn.com. August 11, 1997.

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