West Bank Quotes
38 West Bank quotes by 30 unique authors
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Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those…
— Yasser Arafat
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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
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[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from…
— Yitzhak Rabin
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When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return,…
— Khaled Mashal
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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…
— Yitzhak Rabin
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
— Pat Buchanan
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Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include…
— Geraldo Rivera
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The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all…
— Lee H. Hamilton
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We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at…
— Ehud Olmert
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Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan…
— Nelson Mandela
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We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.
— Ariel Sharon
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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…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
— Steven T. Katz
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Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to…
— Saeb Erekat
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I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West…
— Michael Franti
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I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would…
— Alan Dershowitz
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We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we…
— Ismail Haniyeh
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You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis…
— Zubin Mehta
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
— Zubin Mehta
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From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants…
— Noam Chomsky
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the…
— Noam Chomsky
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The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.
— Noam Chomsky
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We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab -…
— Elliott Abrams
Who Wrote These West Bank Quotes
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