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Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism's roots are not so shallow.


Ehud Olmert

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ISMAIL HANIYEH The Palestinians are very worried about the expansion of settlements in the West Bank, particularly ...
AHMED QURIE Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil an...
MAHMOUD ABBAS I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did ...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ President Bush speaks of a Palestinian state (with) the June 1967 borders. Sharon is repeating what ...
SAEB ERAKAT Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West...
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of ...
IAN LUSTICK I am afraid the Israeli project aims to make Gaza a Palestinian state...
MAHMUD ABBAS The liberation of the Gaza Strip is not the end of the road to comprehensive liberation. We will not...
ISMAIL HANIEH The withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is basically unilateral and Israel has not fully coordinated ever...
ABU KHOUSA The occupier's retreat from Gaza and northern West Bank is a result of resistance.
ISMAIL HANIYYE A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on th...
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. From now on, ... responsibility for what happens in Gaza falls on the Palestinian Authority.
AVIV KOCHAVI I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I ...
MICHAEL FRANTI The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a v...
ISMAIL HANIYEH We refuse the establishment of a state only in Gaza. Gaza is part of the occupied areas. A viable Pa...
AHMED QURIE This is a victory of the Palestinian people who voted against the occupation (by Israel in the West ...
ISMAIL HANIYEH This is very dangerous and could easily go from bad to worse, ... It is not in the Israeli or Palest...
SAEB EREKAT Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it ...
LEON PANETTA From now on, the responsibility for what happens in the Gaza Strip lies in the hands of the Palestin...
GENERAL AVI KOCHAVI not only on the Palestinian track (but) the Lebanese track and the Syrian track so that we can have ...
ARIEL SHARON The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothe...
AHMET SEZNER The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothe...
AHMET NECDET SEZNER We have always condemned attacks targeting civilians, whether Palestinian or Israelis. Such attacks ...
SAEB ERAKAT The fact that some of these Arab states are willing to make this public is heartening, and it's a fa...
JACK STRAW Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve t...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS There is no real presence of the Palestinian Authority in Gaza, ... The security situation is in a v...
NABIL AMR But Arafat's devotion was to the Palestinian cause and not to the Palestinian people. [...] As a res...
BARRY RUBIN I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be creat...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS Abu Mazen is not a member of the Zionist movement. He is a Palestinian.
ARIEL SHARON The beginning of the Palestinian freedom is also a beginning of reconciliation between the two peopl...
MICHEL SABBAH It is wrong to say the U.S. should 'not take sides' in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
HOWARD BERMAN What we saw tonight in Tel Aviv was the Palestinian response to the Mitchell report,
GIDEON MEIR From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies ...
NOAM CHOMSKY It's a trade-off. The Gaza Strip for the settlement blocks; the Gaza Strip for Palestinian land; the...
DROR ETKES We regret the loss of civilian life, both Israeli and Palestinian, but this attack happened in Tel A...
ABDEL RAHMAN Collective punishment for the Palestinians does not help the Palestinian Authority to build the Pale...
ELIAS KUKALI Obviously what we will not be doing is taking the place of the Palestinian customs and security offi...
MARC OTTE Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refuge...
ISMAIL HANIYEH The goal of the Palestinian cabinet is to form a national coalition cabinet to serve the interests o...
GHAZI HAMAD Although the retreat of the Zionist regime from Gaza is short of Palestinian rights and demands, it ...
AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI The destruction of sacred sites in Gaza proves that the Palestinian Authority must never be entruste...
ABRAHAM COOPER At a time when the Palestinian Authority is trying to maintain calm, this murder intentionally aims ...
MAHMUD ABBAS Israel expects the Palestinian authorities to take immediate action to stop the firing and put an en...
SHIMON PERES Mr. Arafat cannot accept less than 100 percent of the 1967 border of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
MARWAN BARGHOUTI In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independen...
SILVAN SHALOM Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let...
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. Instead of being happy and celebrating the Israeli departure from Gaza, they are whining and crying,...
GIDEON MEIR At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
JANE HARMAN The way forward is for Palestinians to realize that suicide bombers and this whole approach of viole...
MJ GOHEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is also the case that how the Palestinian political process unfolds and evolves is a question for...
SEAN MCCORMACK I think His Majesty agrees we need to do everything we can to support Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] and ...
JIM KOLBE The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
WARREN CHRISTOPHER The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in ...
EHUD BARAK This withdrawal from Gaza should be a real, comprehensive one, from the air, sea and our borders. Th...
ISMAIL HANIEH While on one hand we are carrying a disengagement (from the Gaza Strip), we have to strengthen our h...
ZEEV BOIM I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonist...
EHUD BARAK Now it's no longer the case, and it's not just the old guard versus the new but those in West Bank a...
ALI JARBAWI Some 29,000 members of the security services have voted in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. It all pass...
AMMAR DWAIK The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
NAFTALI BENNETT It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in ther...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ It is clear that the Palestinians need to take comprehensive steps to stop terror attacks. It is als...
JEANIE MAMO This is disputed land, not Palestinian, or we claim public ownership.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU We call on you to continue moral and financial support, and to direct all aid to the Palestinian tre...
ISMAIL HANIYAH If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and f...
ADAM HASNER He is not going to negotiate. The negotiation is over. The opposing points are very clear. We are wa...
HAIM RAMON Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate ...
AYMAN ODEH The escalation that has occurred is because (Palestinian Authority President Yasser) Arafat gave a g...
DORE GOLD The Palestinian people should not be punished because they chose democracy.
MAHMUD ABBAS This is an earthquake in Israeli-Palestinian relationships and an internal earthquake in Palestinian...
ADRIEN WING I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equat...
NAFTALI BENNETT We do not seek vengeance, only to rid Palestinian society of corruption, and bring security to the s...
FARHAT ASAD there is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE We are not withdrawing our staff and we are still present in all the Palestinian territories, both l...
DOROTHEA KRIMITSAS I had a revelation in the fact that Palestinians are not the terrorists they are made out to be in t...
PAUL KENNEDY The PLO was founded three years before the Israelis ever occupied Gaza and the West Bank, and that t...
BRIGITTE GABRIEL Any Israeli government must cooperate with us and must not ignore the Palestinian side.
MAHMUD ABBAS I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who...
YITZHAK RABIN This is by far the biggest crisis facing the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian economy. It c...
GIDI GRINSTEIN If they want peace, they must know that what is happening in the Gaza Strip must happen in the West ...
SAEB ERAKAT What is happening is very dangerous ... They are expanding the borders of Jerusalem to the Jordan Va...
AHMED QURIE The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade ...
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets...
YASSER ARAFAT The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial e...
NOAM CHOMSKY We don't know if people can cross from Gaza into the West Bank. The challenge now is to rebuild. Unf...
DIANA BUTTU Now the Palestinian Authority has to re-evaluate the decisions from last night and the necessary ste...
NABIL AMR This action is foreign to the traditions of the Palestinian people. We will not allow anyone to dama...
MAHMOUD ABBAS This is a preparation for the declaration of the Palestinian state,
YASSER ARAFAT In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real te...
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hop...
NAFTALI BENNETT We're talking about more aggressive military activity. If the price we have to pay becomes unreasona...
GEN. YOAV GALANT We consider the presence of the settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip illegal. Until the time tha...
AHMED QUREIA European countries have not granted visas to members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who wer...
MIKHAIL MARGELOV The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS I'm not saying I'm the only Jewish person who cares about Palestinian people, but unfortunat...
JULIAN SCHNABEL The Palestinian Authority is facing a supreme test of its credibility.
AMOS GILAD We have no intention of carrying out a military disengagement, because there is no Palestinian partn...
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EHUD BARAK Israel is much more effective when the Israelis are convinced that we are on the moral high ground: ...
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EHUD BARAK we do not intend to drag our feet for another three years.
EHUD BARAK As a political leader, he is almost personally the dominant figure in every blunder that we have got...
EHUD BARAK I have to say in anguish that we have not yet succeeded, ... because we did not find a partner that ...
EHUD BARAK The people of the Middle East are ready for the dawn of a new era, ... I believe it is our duty, lea...
EHUD BARAK Your sensitivity, your gestures conquered the hearts of all Israelis.
EHUD BARAK Once there will be an agreement, if and when there will be an agreement, the enthusiasm within the p...
EHUD BARAK We want peace, but not at any price.
EHUD BARAK I believe the most complicated issue is Jerusalem , ... But I believe that if there will be a breakt...
EHUD BARAK hopeful that, in response to our readiness to take calculated risk, without violating our national i...
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EHUD BARAK The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U....
EHUD BARAK We are filled with confidence that we will not let this opportunity get away from us. This time we w...
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EHUD GELBLUM arbitrator, policeman and judge.
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