Palestinian Quotes - Page 2

We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.

There will be no Palestinian state

We do not recognize the right of the Palestinian Arabs to rule the country, since Palestine is still undeveloped and awaits its builders.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do.

Any approach that doesn't acknowledge the Palestinians' legitimate rights is doomed to fail. That also applies to any strategy that ignores the fact that Hamas is a part of the Palestinian resistance.

The Palestinians cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves

Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.

Many of the Israelis begin to understand and discover the realities and the facts. They can't demolish five million Palestinians. They can't annihilate them.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

The Israelis have not been willing to take the crucial step, and that is to withdraw from the Palestinian territory, the West Bank. And this is a crucial point and Israel has not only kept increasing the settlements in number, but have built highways among all the settlements from which the Palestinians are now excluded.

The best way to constrain Iran's potential movement towards nuclear capability is to have peace in the Middle East, peace between the Israeli and the Palestinians. To end the official war that still exists between Israel and Syria, Israel and Lebanon.

The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.

I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

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

Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.

I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

Jimmy Carter is not loved in Israel, and yet no American president gave them a greater gift than Jimmy Carter gave them with peace with Egypt, and the opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians.

The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.

Everything you do with Palestinians in Israel someone will criticize.