Palestinian Quotes

In Gaza, there are 22,000 employees paid by the Palestinian Authority, fully armed, working for the security forces of the Palestinian Authority.

- Silvan Shalom

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn`t willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

- Silvan Shalom

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

- Steven Spielberg

During an interview with Roger Ebert regarding his film Munich (2005) and the response from Jewish critics that claim it depicts Israeli and Palestinian causes as morally equivalent: Frankly, I think that`s a stupid charge. The people who attack the movie based on `moral equivalence` are some of the same people who say diplomacy itself is an exercise in `moral equivalence` and that war is the only answer. That the only way to fight terrorism is to dehumanize the terrorists by asking no questions about who they are and where they come from. What I believe is, every act of terrorism requires a strong response, but we must also pay attention to the causes. That`s why we have brains and the power to think passionately. Understanding does not require approval. Understanding is not the same as inaction. Understanding is a very muscular act. If I`m endorsing understanding and being attacked for that, then I am almost flattered.

- Steven Spielberg

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem.

- Geraldo Rivera

They require the kind of courage that none of us would have. It`s a kind of courage that`s very hard to understand. And it`s our duty to try to understand it because it is the courage of desperation. And what is the difference between somebody who goes into a coffee house with the intention of killing as many people as possible - and does so - and somebody who`s in an aeroplane at the height of five miles, unobtainable by any anti-aircraft gun, and lets their bombs drop as scientifically as possible, in order to kill as few people as possible? I guarantee that the one who tries to kill as few people as possible will kill many more than the one who goes into a snack bar and blows himself or herself up. But in this campaign, I wonder how many of the people who have been killed were terrorists? I think very, very few. To my mind, it`s a big lie. - On Palestinian suicide bombers

- Peter Ustinov

My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.

- Tom DeLay

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

- Warren Christopher

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

- Yasser Arafat

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

- Yasser Arafat

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

- Yasser Arafat

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

- Yitzhak Rabin

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

- Yitzhak Rabin

(The Palestinian National Authority, in a statement, accused Israeli forces of committing) another brutal crime, ... targeted and killed in cold blood, by the fire of the Israeli tanks.

- James Miller

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.

- Ariel Sharon

Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don`t want to deal with Arafat, who don`t want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It`s the same policy and the same people.

- Chris Matthews

This is an important effort on our part to help rebuild the Palestinian economy and infrastructure.

- David Welch

overall Palestinian Authority performance to date has been far from satisfactory.

- David Welch

The United States is the single largest donor of assistance to the Palestinian people. We have about this year -- if you count the regular assistance budget to the Palestinians, plus supplemental assistance, we are devoting approximately 350 million dollars to this.

- David Welch

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

- Oriana Fallaci

You still can`t find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook.

- Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don`t even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It`s enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

- Suzanne Fields

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That`s why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

- Suzanne Fields

Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations.

- Tom Lantos

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

- Amos Oz

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.

- Amos Oz

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

- Romano Prodi

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

- Mahmoud Abbas

The Palestinian groups do not listen to us. We only help them in a humanitarian aspect like other countries, but they have no obligations towards us.

- Ahmed Mukhlef

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

- Ahmedou Ould Haye

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.

- Al Embry

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

- Alain de Vogue

However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there.

- Alexander Liberman

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.

- Alexander Liberman

The Americans are surely mistaken if they think they can make peace without finding a real and fair solution to the Palestinian issue.

- Alexander Liberman

I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land.

- Alexander Liberman

It is wrong to say the U.S. should "not take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

- Alexandre Vasarhelyi

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

- Alfred Chan

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

- Alfred Chan

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

- Alfred Chan

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

- Alfred Chan

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

- Algernon Sidney

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.

- Alice Marquardt

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.

- Alice Marquardt

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel`s security or advances U.S. national interests.

- Alon Tal

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel`s right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

- Alon Tal

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

- Ambrose Redmoon

The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don`t say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.

- Ambrose Redmoon

On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

- American Council

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

- American Council