Mahmoud Abbas Quotes

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• Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine.…
• We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.
• We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
• The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law…
• We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we would pick up…
• We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international…
• The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism,…
• A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement... [the Zionists] gave permission to every racist in the world, led…
• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
• The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth
• All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the…
• The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to…
• From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital
• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it…
• No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
• The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their…
• We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul…
• 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…
• We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

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