#palestinians

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#certain #cooking #current #difficult #eat

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#bush #essentially #going #here #i

The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#am #arab #develop #good #good job

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. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#choose #fair #form #gets #homeland

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#israelis #palestinians #see #solution #states

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#any #arab #because #cause #crucial

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

#europe #france #hope #i #i hope that

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#enemy #israel #our #palestinians #yes

The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#dismantle #implement #infrastructure #never #organizations

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#israel #measure #palestinians #preventative #state