Arab Israeli Conflict Quotes

• The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

  Jimmy Carter

  Israel, Obstacles, Colonization

  "Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace". www.haaretz.com. March 16, 2006.

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• Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  France, England, Palestine

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• El conflicto árabe-israelí es también en muchos sentidos un conflicto de estatus: es una guerra entre dos pueblos que se sienten profundamente humillados por el otro, que quieren que el otro les respete. Las batallas por el estatus pueden ser incluso más intratables que las que se libran por la tierra, el agua o el petróleo.

  Alain de Botton

  War, Land, Two

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• Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Taken, Israel

  "The Jewish Paradox". Book by Nahum Goldmann, translated by Steve Cox, p. 99, 1978.

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• Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

  Isaac Rabin

  Blood, Tears, Enough

  Remark to Palestinians upon signing of the IsraelPalestine Declaration, Washington, D.C., 13 Sept. 1993

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• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist.

  Moshe Dayan

  Book, Israel, Names

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Struggle, Islamic, Mean

  "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden". "Trouw", March 31, 1977.

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• No hay un solo lugar construido en este país que no haya tenido una antigua población árabe.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Israel, Cleansing

  "The Racism Barrier" by M.Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. October 3, 2003.

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• It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Land, Numbers

  Agence France Presse, en.wikipedia.org. November 15, 1998.

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• We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Scary, Cleansing

  Letter to his son Amos on October 5, 1937. "Fabricating Israeli History: The 'New Historians'" by Efraim Karsh, 1997.

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

  Steven Spielberg

  Palestinian, Conflict, Israeli

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• What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

  Isaac Rabin

  Government, Israel, Firsts

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• It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.

  Molly Antopol

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

  Juan Cole

  Aunt, People, Middle East

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• The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

  John Podhoretz

  País, Guerra, Realidad

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• El conflicto árabe-israelí es el mayor problema, pero hay pequeños problemas que condicionan la vida cotidiana de los israelíes. A menos que haya una guerra, el conflicto árabe-israelí es irrelevante en la vida cotidiana.

  Yair Lapid

  War, Small Problems, Shapes

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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