Palestinians Quotes · Page 2

It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them.

— Ami Ayalon

Palestinians caged up like animals.

— Chuck Hagel

What happens in Israel should be decided between Israel and the Palestinians.

— Jacky Rosen

The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.

— Moshe Ya'alon

Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East.

— John Pilger

Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among…

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

Attacks by extremist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop. And those committing the violence must be held accountable.

— Lloyd Austin

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

— Hassan Nasrallah

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

— Silvan Shalom

There are many Palestinians, to be diplomatic, who believe there is no way to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, first of…

— Reuven Rivlin

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't…

— Yasser Arafat

Israel has been extremely aggressive, they have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation…

— Margot Wallstrom

If the Palestinians will one day decide to wake up and join a diplomatic process that is being carried out with the…

— Benny Gantz

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

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

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

Hamas does not represent the national aspirations of the Palestinians. It represents extreme Islamic ideas, which they share with Iran, Hezbollah, and…

— Tzipi Livni

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in…

— Ehud Olmert

“But Palestinians do respond overwhelmingly with love. Just as the Indigenous populations of an entire hemisphere, subjected to the largest genocide in…

— Omar El Akkad

The right course is for the Palestinians and the Israelis to sit down at the table together. The Palestinians need to recognize…

— Mitt Romney

“I grieved three thousand times. Then I grieved for myself, a lonely woman without the honor given to the wives of the…

— Susan Abulhawa

Some friends of Israel believe that the Palestinians will never, in their hearts, accept a Jewish state in Palestine. Yet Germans and…

— Antony Blinken

Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached…

— Ismail Haniyeh

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would…

— Ariel Sharon

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military…

— John Pilger

I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace…

— Michael Oren

The Palestinians cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves

— Joan Rivers

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

— Ismail Haniyeh

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

— Silvan Shalom

I didn't go into politics out of concern for the Palestinians but out of concern for Israel.

— Tzipi Livni

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

— Anonymous

If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace.

— Noam Chomsky

All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land.

— Rick Santorum

I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon…

— Jimmy Carter

Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.

— Remi Kanazi

I am keen and anxious for the safety of both the Jews and the Palestinians.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

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

— David Ben-Gurion

The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.

— Noam Chomsky

There's a myth that in Arab countries, they all like Palestinians. They don't. On the contrary.

— Frans Timmermans