“Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.” PeopleWorldHas BeensReasonDoneAcceptingEuropeUltimateVictimReason WhyTargetHolocaustPalestinianAnti SemitismAbomination Book:We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century Source: We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century
“They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.” StatesMovingPoliticalBehindsResponsibilityAcceptingPsychologicalMaturityRevolutionaryPalestinianAdolescenceVictimizationAccepting Responsibility Author:Ari Shavit
“If there will be a serious Palestinian prime minister who makes a 100 percent effort to end terrorism, then we can have peace. Each side has to take steps. If terror continues, there will not be an independent Palestinian state. Israel will not accept it, if terror continues.” IfsEndsStatesSidesEffortAcceptingStepsSeriousPercentIndependentTerrorIsraelTerrorismMinistersPrimePalestinianPrime Minister Author:Ariel Sharon
“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 status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.” LooksIdeasHardLinesAcceptingClassPositionHappeningsPicksThirdsGoing AwayThis DayPalestinianClass Status Author:Arthur Hertzberg
“We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.” GivingStatesLinesUnitedCitiesAcceptingGiving UpAgreeTerroristAgreementPalestinianSovereigntyIsraeliJerusalem Author:Naftali Bennett
“The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but that they also recognize Israel's abstract right to exist, a concept that has no place in international law or diplomacy, and a right claimed by no one. In effect, the US and Israel are demanding that Palestinians . . . formally accept the legitimacy of their expulsion from their own land. They cannot be expected to accept that, just as Mexico does not grant the US the right to exist on half of Mexico's territory, gained by conquest.” DoeStatesLawHalfAcceptingRightsLandEffectsConceptsInternationalIsraelExpectedAbstractGrantsTerritoryMexicoPalestinianConquestDiplomacyLegitimacyInternational LawExpulsion Author:Noam Chomsky