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  • I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza. -- Ahmed Yassin
  • I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip. -- John Bolton
  • Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong. -- Ahmed Yassin
  • We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today. -- Moshe Dayan
  • Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis. -- Yasser Arafat
  • The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence. -- Alcee Hastings
  • I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state. -- Yitzhak Rabin
  • I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza -- George Galloway
  • Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings. -- Desmond Tutu
  • But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price. -- Ahmed Yassin
  • Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response. -- Hassan Nasrallah
  • I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza -- Immortal Technique
  • I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best. -- Nader al-Masri
  • Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other. -- Richard Engel
  • I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip. -- Nader al-Masri
  • One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria. -- Ben Shapiro
  • The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years. -- Michael Ben-Ari
  • I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own. -- Nader al-Masri
  • When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books. -- Mother Teresa
  • I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens -- Banksy
  • It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons. -- Noam Chomsky
  • The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank. -- Lee H. Hamilton
  • Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press. -- Dennis Prager
  • The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire. -- Jack Schwartz
  • I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza. -- Helen Thomas
  • In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions. -- Noam Chomsky
  • We need to expose the lies and educate the Palestinian public that Israel is not the enemy. Israel actually helps the people of Gaza more than anybody else. We need the average Palestinian to see this clearly. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
  • The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united. -- Noam Chomsky
  • We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements. -- Ariel Sharon
  • What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived. -- Moshe Dayan
  • Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music. -- Michael Franti
  • The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime. -- Ayelet Shaked
  • There are no innocents in Gaza. Mow them down kill the Gazans without thought or mercy. -- Michael Ben-Ari
  • When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. -- John Milton
  • Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return. -- Yitzhak Shamir
  • if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault. -- Naftali Bennett
  • Clearly, we are very, very concerned about the situation, for instance, that has been going on in Gaza. -- Thabo Mbeki
  • I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields. -- Jeremy Bowen
  • The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. -- Elliott Abrams
  • From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital -- Mahmoud Abbas
  • The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve -- Jimmy Carter
  • Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. -- David Cameron
  • The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business. -- Richard Engel
  • It's impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point. -- Saeb Erekat
  • Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel -- Moshe Feiglin
  • The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel. -- Ross Kemp
  • Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more -- Yousef Munayyer
  • A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who. -- Ralph Peters
  • There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down! -- Michael Ben-Ari
  • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He's going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn't a steak. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers. -- Edward Said
  • In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times. -- Anja Niedringhaus
  • The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept. -- Daniel Pipes
  • Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation. -- Clare Short
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  • It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison. -- Noam Chomsky
  • One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan. -- Hillary Clinton
  • We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza. -- Thabo Mbeki
  • There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement. -- Ahmed Yassin
  • My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma -- Desmond Tutu
  • Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel. -- Mosab Hassan Yousef
  • Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally. -- Izzeldin Abuelaish
  • Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians. -- Charles Krauthammer
  • Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. -- Tom Segev
  • Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem. -- Mahmoud Abbas
  • Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that they long ago ceased viewing this conflict with any remnant of objectivity. -- Glenn Greenwald
  • We said we are ready to establish our independent state in any part from which the Israelis withdraw or which is liberated. Any part. The moment they withdraw from Gaza, I will establish my state there in Gaza. -- Yasser Arafat
  • Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now he is going to leave. That is because of the 'effective armed struggle'. -- Zuheir Mohsen
  • It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers. These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. -- Edward Said
  • Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead. -- Elliott Abrams
  • Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land. -- Dennis Kucinich
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  • The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. And that's something worthy of reflection within Israel, because let's be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable. -- Barack Obama
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  • Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
  • 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. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
  • All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.' -- Ramsay MacMullen
  • Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens. -- Menachem Begin
  • Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines, and I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with insuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat, from Gaza to Tehran. -- Barack Obama
  • George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violation in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a Lifetime Achievement Award. -- Tina Fey
  • I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine. -- Michael Franti
  • During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come. -- Michael Franti
  • From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support. -- Noam Chomsky
  • For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. -- James Buchan
  • We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967. -- Ismail Haniyeh
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