Palestinian Quotes - Page 8

• I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

  Tony Campolo

  Israel, Breathing, People

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• And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Children, Thinking, Israel

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• Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.

  Lewis Black

  People, Psychotic, Midst

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• The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

  Conrad Black

  Country, Israel, Numbers

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• I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

  Joe Biden

  Hype, Numbers, Support

  "Interview With Colin Powell; Interview With Nabil Sha'ath; Interview With Ehud Olmert". "CNN Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer", January 9, 2005.

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• But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

  Joe Biden

  Election, Authority, Polls

  "Interview With Colin Powell; Interview With Nabil Sha'ath; Interview With Ehud Olmert". "CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", edition.cnn.com. January 9, 2005.

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• Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.

  Roseanne Barr

  Heaven, Pals, Earth

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi seems to embody ideals, expectations, and fears of the future that are quite adequate for describing the Palestinian predicament. Somehow managing to fuse nostalgia and hopes for a better and more efficient future, sci-fi seems to lend itself to capturing the decades of Palestinian yearning for a utopia that almost seems dated by now.

  Larissa Sansour

  Expectations, Nostalgia, Obstacles

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• The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  War, Destiny, Years

  "Iran's President Says Israel Must Be 'Wiped Off the Map'". "The World Without Zionism" conference, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Our response has been, "Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table." That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

  Abdallah II

  Effort, Tables, Blame

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

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• Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.

  Abdallah II

  Moving, Home, Needs

  Abdallah II's Speech at the Mideast summit in Aqaba, Jordan, edition.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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• My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want to see Israel have a secure nation with secure borders - also loves the Palestinians.

  Tony Campolo

  Israel, Borders, Want

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• Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

  Jimmy Carter

  Israel, Land, Giving

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• On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Disappointment, Blessing

  "Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war'". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I compare the Middle East to a big condominium, we called shared residence? Well, you have many families that you don't like; some of them are bad families. But, unlike in a condominium, you are doomed to be with your neighbors; a person cannot choose his parents, and a nation cannot choose its neighbors, they were both there. One of them which happened to be quite problematic, short of perfect, called the Palestinians. So we have problems with them.

  Ehud Barak

  Perfect, Parent, Problem

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Israel legendary foreign minister, Abba Eban, used to say that the Palestinians had never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

  Ehud Barak

  Opportunity, Missing, Legendary

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The Arab leaders, they don't have a love affair with the Palestinians or the Palestinian leadership, but the publics have, and they cannot feel safe in their own chairs if they accept Israel, the mistress, so to speak, to acknowledge her as a main, the Unter den Linden, the main road, as long as we are not moving forward with the Palestinians.

  Ehud Barak

  Moving, Long, Leader

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews fighting for the cause of Israel. Now you find Israelis, former Israelis, and Arabs, and Jews, fighting for the Palestinian cause. We are somehow losing the moral high ground, and I keep telling our people it's great to deal with propaganda, to activate many ways, to deploy PR firms all around the world.

  Ehud Barak

  Fighting, People, Support

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Israel is very confusing because it seems to be a Goliath, and in some ways it is, when you look at the tanks versus the Palestinian boy. But deep down, when you look at the big map and the big picture and the big history, we are really a David. We are a David with some megalomaniac ideas who thinks he's huge. But we're not. At the end of the day, Jews as a people are an endangered species. One cannot overlook this dimension.

  Ari Shavit

  Boys, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem is the most sensitive of all the issues that need to be addressed in order to achieve a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. But Donald Trump determined an important aspect of the United States' position towards Jerusalem before any agreement. Most of the rest of the world feels that it ought not to be dealt with first, that it ought not to be dealt with separately, and that it ought not to be dealt with unilaterally.

  Richard N. Haass

  Christian, Important, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The U.S. position on Jerusalem was not the reason why there hasn't been progress towards peace. The reason is that both the Israeli government and the Palestinian leadership are divided. And there is an enormous gap between Israelis and Palestinians. To say that this decision is only recognizing reality, that Jerusalem is the actual capital of Israel - well, that's true. But it's a selective recognition of reality.

  Richard N. Haass

  Reality, Decision, Progress

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If the president Donald Trump had connected the Jerusalem question to some other positions, linking it to Israeli and Palestinian behavior or putting the Jerusalem statement in a larger context of U.S. policy, it could have potentially advanced the peace process. But I don't see how singling it out might help.

  Richard N. Haass

  President, Helping, Behavior

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Successful, Thinking, Would Be

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• The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

  Daniel Craig

  Thinking, Squad, Matter

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• The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

  Warren Christopher

  Election, Mandates, Turning Points

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