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Palestinians caged up like animals. -- Chuck Hagel
Palestinians have no wealth or power. -- Noam Chomsky
The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs. -- Menachem Begin
Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians. -- Daniel Pipes
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. -- Abba Eban
It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them. -- Ami Ayalon
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed. -- Golda Meir
Everything you do with Palestinians in Israel someone will criticize. -- Eran Kolirin
We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can. -- Samantha Power
The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be. -- Daniel Pipes
The problem is the Palestinians don't recognize the legitimacy of Israel. -- Ruth Wisse
The Palestinians cannot throw rockets and expect people not to defend themselves -- Joan Rivers
Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear. -- Noam Chomsky
(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls. -- Yitzhak Shamir
Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist, -- Barack Obama
Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians. -- Mohammed Morsi
Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not. -- Brent Scowcroft
There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights. -- Mohammed Morsi
The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more. -- Ehud Barak
Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong. -- Ahmed Yassin
There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel. -- Silvan Shalom
The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations. -- Silvan Shalom
The Israelis haven't done anything to the Palestinians. They treated them with flowers and roses. -- Cenk Uygur
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians. -- Ismail Haniyeh
They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians -- Norman Finkelstein
But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom. -- Abu Abbas
We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. -- Nelson Mandela
The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. -- Elliott Abrams
The people of Israel will have to be convinced that the Palestinians are ready for peace. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
If the Palestinians took up arms, went into Israel and killed all the Jews, it'd be alright -- Professor Griff
Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today. -- Chuck Hagel
The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror. -- Melanie Phillips
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis. -- Abdallah II
The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price. -- Emile Lahoud
We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango. -- Silvan Shalom
The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis. -- Abdallah II
Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom. -- Remi Kanazi
Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick. -- Dennis Miller
The Arabs of the land of Israel [ Palestinians] have only one functionleft to them -- to run away. -- David Ben-Gurion
There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field. -- Jane Harman
I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields. -- Jeremy Bowen
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. -- Noam Chomsky
Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish. -- Mitt Romney
If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine. -- Hassan Nasrallah
The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv. -- David Mamet
The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together. -- Bill Richardson
The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them. -- Bobby Fischer
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I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it. -- Elliott Abrams
Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor. -- Alan Dershowitz
Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. -- Elliott Abrams
It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel. -- Rick Perry
Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track. -- William Hague
The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. -- Elliott Abrams
The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace. -- Noam Chomsky
We must do everything to insure they [the Palestinians] never do return.... The old will die and the young will forget. -- David Ben-Gurion
What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories. -- Yasser Arafat
I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. -- Yitzhak Rabin
Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives. -- Barton Gellman
All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no 'Palestinian.' This is Israeli land. -- Rick Santorum
It's called peaceful coexistence, Santangelo. You should try it and if it works we may sell the idea to the Israelis and Palestinians -- Melina Marchetta
The Palestinians are not willing to do anything, they're not willing to make the strategic decision to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations. -- Silvan Shalom
Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing.Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious. -- Shimon Peres
Martyrdom operations - suicide bombings - should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it. -- Hassan Nasrallah
And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel. -- David Duke
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. -- Yasser Arafat
I'm telling Palestinians, "Don't use violence." We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom. -- Saeb Erekat
Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism. -- Khaled Abou El Fadl
Donald Trump agreed with Hillary Clinton supporting John Kerry. He agreed with Hillary Clinton on being - quote - "neutral" between Israel and the Palestinians. -- Ted Cruz
Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality. -- Daniel Barenboim
Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians. -- Moshe Katsav
By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world's most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy. -- George Gilder
I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice. -- Michal Rovner
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. -- Jimmy Carter
We have no solution... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads. -- Moshe Dayan
I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon and to Syria. -- Jimmy Carter
There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission. -- Ehud Olmert
In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure. -- Daniel Barenboim
As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. -- Chuck Schumer
As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. -- Chuck Schumer
The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap. -- Kjell Magne Bondevik
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict. -- Brent Scowcroft
Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?' -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it. -- Norman Finkelstein
Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them? -- Norman Finkelstein
What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe. -- Russell Means
The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing. -- George Carey
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 -- Julian Schnabel
Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace. -- Natan Sharansky
Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. -- River Phoenix
For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues. -- Jonathan Katz
[Palestinians] are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians. -- Shimon Peres
Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians. -- Brian D. McLaren
One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny. -- Paddy Ashdown
Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians. -- Ariel Sharon
I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state. -- David Brooks
My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people. -- Frank Carson
A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends. -- Shimon Peres
If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream. -- James Wolfensohn
I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer. -- Mandy Patinkin
The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to themâ??violence. -- Chris Hedges
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation. -- Mahmoud Darwish
September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful. -- Norman Finkelstein
Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine. -- Christopher Hitchens
I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians. -- Yitzhak Rabin
The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era. -- Ghassan Kanafani
Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door. -- Dennis A. Ross
Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door. -- Dennis A. Ross
The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians. -- Daniel Craig
The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy -- Ali Khamenei
By replacing history with fantasy, the Palestinians have invented a society unlike any other, where hatred trumps bread. They have reared children unlike any other children, removed from ordinary norms and behaviors. -- Cynthia Ozick

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