Palestinians Quotes

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

I`m on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we`ve never been closer.

- Mandy Patinkin

I can`t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

- River Phoenix

There`s no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

- Silvan Shalom

We will ease the life of Palestinians by giving them more industrial zones, more licenses to work in Israel and to stay overnight here.

- Silvan Shalom

The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

- Silvan Shalom

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

- Silvan Shalom

If the Palestinians will find a new channel that they can achieve their demands, they will have no incentive to resume the negotiations with us.

- Silvan Shalom

The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they`re not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

- Silvan Shalom

It`s not that we`re going to separate our people into two parts. We would like the Palestinians to live there and we will live here.

- Silvan Shalom

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

- Silvan Shalom

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

- Bruce Dern

You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won`t have peace.

- Charles Schumer

As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence.

- Charles Schumer

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

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

I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

- Yitzhak Rabin

The Bush Administration`s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

- Barack Obama

Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

- Condoleezza Rice

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

- Ariel Sharon

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

- Ron Paul

The disengagement from Gaza is a bold step. It has changed the political landscape. It offers a new chance to do something different between the Israelis and Palestinians, and we would like to see if it can bear further fruit.

- 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

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

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

- Amos Oz

I believe that Egypt in its own way, the Palestinians when they are given a chance, and others will before long move towards greater democracy.

- Douglas Hurd

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.

- Robert Lowe

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.

- Ahmed Mukhlef

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

- Ahmedou Ould Haye

I don`t know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

- Al Embry

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

- Alain de Vogue

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

- Alain de Vogue

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

- Alex Laughlin

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who`s unemployed in the world, you feel there`s no meaning and there`s a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

- Alexander Duff

If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine.

- Alexander Liberman

The developing agenda of the Palestinians is that Israel is a foreign implant in the heart of the Islamic world, and all of its citizens are settlers.

- Alfred Chan

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don`t have a job, who`ve used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.

- Alfredo Rodriguez

There`s no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

- Algernon Sidney

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

- Allie Gray

Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.

- Ambrose Redmoon

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

- American Council

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

- American Council

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.

- Andrew Greeley

I think Israelis felt that by completing the withdrawal from Gaza, they had created an opportunity for peace for the Palestinians to seize upon. And what they saw was synagogues in flames, and that`s something with a very ominous tone for the success of any future negotiations.

- Antoine Rivarol

it was pretty clear he didn`t think he could get a quid pro quo from the Palestinians. He did think, however, that he could get one from the United States.

- Antoine Rivarol

He indicated it was a very difficult decision and stressed the pragmatic nature of what the Israeli army is trying to do by consolidating its resources. I don`t think there was any unrealistic sense of optimism because the Palestinians have done nothing to combat terrorism.

- Antonio Gonzalez

I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony.

- Asa Hutchinson

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

I want kids, a family of my own. I`d like to give them the first eight years of their lives in the country. Then I`d want them educated, which I wasn`t formally, although I had a tutor once when I was twelve. At times I miss a formal education, but at others I thank God for everything else I have now. What I have got from my childhood aren`t toys, but memories. And happy memories are better than any toy. It`s a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies. I`m having a kind of hard time keeping my head above water in this crazy business. In Stand by Me (1986), I realized that what I was creating was going to live on far longer than anything of me as a person. The characters are more powerful than the person that creates them. I would get songs sung to me, like `Old Man River, `or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I`ve really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don`t think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it . Sometimes I hear stuff like `Hey man, wheres your skateboard, dude?` from people who think I`m Christian Slater. We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year. (The Animals Voice Magazine - 1989) I don`t see any point or any good in drugs that are as disruptive as cocaine. It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have a moral objection against somebody`s sexuality, it`s like telling someone else how to clean their house. Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it`s a universal disease. We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I`m glad I didn`t have a traditional upbringing. Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. We are taught to consume. And that`s what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it`s just a mind set, that it`s just an addiction, then we wouldn`t be out there stepping on people`s hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. People wonder if I`ll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That`s why I`ll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix. Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn`t know what the words meant. When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard. I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn`t such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I`d ever done. I can`t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I`m probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn`t like selling a product I didn`t believe in. Music is my main goal, but I`m not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don`t want to do it because it`s the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right. Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling. Music is a hobby, because I`m not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. It`s a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies. I`ve been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead. I remember we`d roll into gas stations in our beat-up van and I`d tell the attendant, `I`m going to be an actor! I have twenty personalities on top of the ten I already have. So now I have thirty people in my head! I like girls who are natural because I am natural in everything I do. If I meet a girl who is snobby and wants special treatment, she`s not going to get it from me because she hasn`t earned it. But I`ve been basically lucky because I`ve met mostly nice girls - and that`s what attracts me. I don`t want to die in a car accident. When I die it`ll be a glorious day. It`ll probably be a waterfall. I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings. I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. I try to lie as much as I can when I`m interviewed. It`s reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they`ll print the truth. I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it. I wouldn`t eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars. I`d like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to experience things. I`m really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I`m Joe Straight. I`m just a normal guy doing a job! I really like acting because you can create a character. You can make someone who has never existed before. That`s neat. When I was younger, I was worried about how others viewed me and if I was good enough. I realize now that you can`t mold an image or try to be something that you are not. As far as being an actor is concerned, your work really speaks for itself. You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the `Update` button will take you through a step-by-step process. With our Resume service you can add photos and build a complete resume to help you achieve the best possible presentation on the IMDb. Click here to add your resume and/or your photos to IMDb. 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- River Phoenix