Palestinians Quotes

Everything you do with Palestinians in Israel someone will criticize.

— Eran Kolirin

The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.

— Daniel Pipes

There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.

— Golda Meir

The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs.

— Menachem Begin

It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.

— Elliott Abrams

The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.

— Yitzhak Shamir

Palestinians caged up like animals.

— Chuck Hagel

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Tzipi Livni

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

— Silvan Shalom

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

— Ismail Haniyeh

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

— Brent Scowcroft

I get messages from Palestinians and from Iranians... everyone is, like, the same.

— Dennis Lloyd

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

“A favorite Palestinian tactic was to set up a couple of cannons or rocket launchers in a Christian village, fire a few…

— Brigitte Gabriel

The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop rocket attacks and tunnel invasions,…

— James Howard Kunstler

Palestinians also have a right not to have their homes demolished because an occupying power refuses to grant them a permit. Palestinian…

— Layla Moran

I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy…

— Michael Oren

I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence,…

— Saeb Erekat

It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Jews know the Palestinians. And they know they're not really different. And they know they are from the same background. And they…

— Russ Feingold

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable,…

— Alice Walker

Israel was established as a homeland for the Jewish people and embraced all the Jews who had to leave Arab states. This…

— Tzipi Livni

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the…

— Zuheir Mohsen

If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when…

— Hillel Neuer

Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that…

— Anonymous

I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred…

— Michael Oren

“The Palestinians were deliberately forced into refugee camps by their fellow Muslims and not permitted to integrate in any way into the…

— Hal Lindsey

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery…

— Uri Avnery

“I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don’t have…

— Rachel Corrie

“Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I was to grow used to hearing, around New York, the annoying way in which people would say: 'Edward Said, such a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In late February 2024 I talk to a friend of mine, a Palestinian Canadian author whose debut novel, rejected by many publishers,…

— Omar El Akkad

“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place…

— Christopher Hitchens