Palestinian Quotes · Page 18

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending…

— Mahmoud Abbas

The land is ours”: that is pretty much the end of the debate. “I will do everything in my power, forever, to…

— Naftali Bennett

I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

— David Ben-Gurion

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

— Benjamin Netanyahu

In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical…

— Noam Chomsky

I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am…

— Ismail Haniyeh

Jews allow to steal lands from Palestinians, only because they are Jews, and those are Palestinian. I want to repeat it, because…

— Udi Aloni

Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated…

— Amos Oz

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

— Julia Bacha

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict,…

— Jason Alexander

We have to understand - not justify - what gives rise to this tragedy. It's not because they're looking for beautiful virgins…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.

— Khaled Mashal

There will be no Palestinian state

— Max Blumenthal

I believe that Israel must concede to the Palestinian right of return in principle. Israel must, first of all, assume its responsibility…

— Uri Avnery

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of…

— Jack Schwartz

You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation -- to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe…

— Ariel Sharon

Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

— Tariq Ramadan

I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us…

— Barack Obama

Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

— David Ben-Gurion

The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.

— Elliott Abrams

I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and…

— Mona Hatoum

The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians.…

— Edward Said

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian…

— Amos Oz