Benches Quote by Jane Harman

The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.

— Elliott Abrams

Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.

— Madeleine Albright

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

— Ami Ayalon

At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years…

— Elliott Abrams

We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the…

— Colin Powell

Hamas' leadership needs new blood. I will continue to serve my people. But the presidency of the Palestinian Autonomous Authority is not a free,…

— Khaled Mashal

“Those primarily responsible for the current desperate situation of the Palestinian people have been their own leaders, from Haj Hussaini (the late Grand Mufti…

— Anonymous

Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands.... I believe that…

— Thomas Friedman

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

— Silvan Shalom

Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class…

— Arthur Hertzberg

The Palestinian people's needs must be respected.

— Bernie Sanders

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

— Julia Bacha