“We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.” PeopleWantStatesFormFairsMajorityPalestinianHomelandReferendums Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
“I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.” StatesIdiotPalestinianIsraeliRecogniseVillage Idiots Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi
“The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.” PeopleBelieveEndsStatesHelpingNationsGoalUnitedPrinciplesAchieveSecurityCreationAcceptanceIndependentNeighborOccupationPalestinianUnited NationsPeace And Security Author:Kofi Annan
“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
“The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.” PeopleWorldShouldStatesIndependentIsraelCommitOccupationTerritoryAggressionPalestinian Author:Khaled Mashal
“I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.” WayWantShouldStatesSpeakCommunityUnitedUnited StatesInternationalOccupationTerritoryAggressionPalestinianIsraeliInternational CommunityIsraeli Occupation Author:Khaled Mashal
“We do not seek an agreement with the [Palestinian] Arabs in order to secure the peace. Of course we regard peace as an essential thing. It is impossible to build up the country in a state of permanent warfare. But peace for us is a mean, and not an end. The end is the fulfillment of Zionism in its maximum scope. Only for this reason do we need peace, and do we need an agreement.” NeedsMeanEndsCountryStatesReasonOrderCoursesImpossibleEssentialsRegardSecurePermanentFulfillmentAgreementPalestinianWarfareScopeMaximumZionism Author:David
“The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own during the days of the first and second Temples. . . We are given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings. This is MORE than a state, government and sovereignty----this is national consolidation in a free homeland.” GivingFirstsStatesDreamGovernmentOpportunityGivenTemplesValleysPalestinianSovereigntyHomelandTransfersState GovernmentCompulsoryConsolidation Author:David
“In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations atlast acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and sadness that we lost half of the country, Judea and Samaria, and , in addition, that we [would] have[in our state] 400,000 [Palestinian] Arabs.” HeartCountryStatesJoyLostNationsHalfSadnessMy HeartPalestinian Author:David
“Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites” StatesHolyEastRejectionRejectsPalestinianSiteSovereigntyIsraeliJordanJerusalem Author:Yasser Arafat
“Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity.” StatesReasonFightingExistenceIdentityToolsUnityIsraelEstablishmentPalestinianTactical Author:Zuheir Mohsen
“I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.” PeopleWorldBelieveStatesCausesViolencePolicyMajorsOppressionBitterDivisionPalestinianExpansionIsraeli Author:Clare Short
“I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.” GivingStatesFightingAliveBecomingHonorPleaseGive MePalestinianSwearMartyrJerusalemSwear To God Author:Yasser Arafat
“Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.” StatesActionNumbersMiddleParticularArmsThreatWestIsraelNuclearPeacefulAggressionPalestinianSyriaEasternNeighbourGazaRoguesLebanonNuclear Arms Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize the rights of the refugees to return to Israel. Hamas will have a position if this occurs.” IfsStatesAnswersRightsPositionReturnIsraelReleaseBordersPrisonerPalestinianRefugeePalestineHamas Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region. No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.” ShouldSaidStatesAmericaClearIsraelUglyLondonBunchRegionsIranPhenomenonPalestinianStanceOutcastThugMoscowTumors Author:Ali Khamenei
“The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state -attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea.” PeopleStatesTodayGivenPoorSeaDemandStonesJewTerritoryPalestinianExplosives Author:Meir Kahane
“As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or a state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is reality but I don’t deal with it from the point of view of recognizing or admitting it.” StatesRealityTodaySpeakTermDealsLandDemandIsraelBordersPalestinianEntityAdmitting Author:Khaled Mashal