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.
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Related This separation wall does not separate Israelis and Palestinians. It separates Palestinians from Pal... SAEB ERAKAT I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary... SHIMON PERES A process that the Israel government ... took upon itself in order to extend our hand in peace to th... GIDEON MEIR Israel has taken the necessary steps to further the prospects of peace with the Palestinians, DAVID BAKER It sometimes seems that the only plan the Israeli government has for the Palestinians is for them to... SAYED KASHUA We are serious and willing to go ahead and achieve peace for both Israel and the Palestinians. ABU SHARIF This is a conscious declaration of war against the Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the Palestinia... AHMED TIBI Why doesn't Israel disarm its settlers who shoot and kill Palestinians? AHMED QURIE By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that ... NATAN SHARANSKY France , like the European Union, will always be at the side of those who, in Israel and among the P... JACQUES CHIRAC The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do ... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palesti... EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... ALICE WALKER My theology is such that the God who loves Israel and will not forsake Israel - which is why I want ... TONY CAMPOLO Maybe it is time for the Palestinians to build their own economic life without leaning on Israel. SHLOMO DROR I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citiz... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU We must stay focused on the bilateral negotiations between the Palestinians and us. REUVEN RIVLIN Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person an... KEITH ELLISON Nothing has shifted. Israel is still about one thing, and that is about how do you take as much Pale... MICHAEL TARAZI Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian... ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN It is clear that the Palestinians need to take comprehensive steps to stop terror attacks. It is als... JEANIE MAMO Israel, for its part, has taken necessary steps to further progress with the Palestinians. The Pales... DAVID BAKER The Palestinians must demonstrate they are capable of controlling Gaza. If they do not demonstrate t... SHIMON PERES Israel has been systematically making life difficult in the Jordan Valley in order to reduce the num... GHASSAN KHATEEB This really exposes Barak's real intentions when it comes to peacemaking, that either (Israelis) bea... HANAN ASHRAWI The claim that Israel seeks to annihilate the Palestinians is simply a lie. Israel seeks to stop roc... JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER Any political process has to secure an improvement in the Palestinians' quality of life and educ... AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much Presid... BEN SHAPIRO I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and har... KING ABDULLAH The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel. YITZHAK SHAMIR This could provide some balance against Israel and help the Palestinians in their negotiations. We h... AMR MOUSSA The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who opp... CHRIS HEDGES I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the s... MICHAEL OREN Palestinians want Israel to return back into boundaries, the width of which is 12 km., that can be c... EHUD OLMERT We see exactly what's going on. Anytime that there's a chance for any resumption of the peace proces... ARYE MEKEL It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who yo... FRED FRITH [Hassan Abdel Rahman, Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the United States, said th... ABDEL RAHMAN The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant t... NORMAN FINKELSTEIN saves Israel again from the embarrassment that the haste of the government has caused throughout the... YOSEF LAPID He was virtually a one-man show in Israel to try to bring about peace and to try to work with the Pa... ALLAN ROSS Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengtheni... NATAN SHARANSKY I don't think he would have been able to bridge the great differences between the Palestinians and I... YITZHAK RABIN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS The message of Palestinians has always been to work out a peaceful settlement with the Israelis on t... AREF ASSAF It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with ... RICK PERRY The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robb... BOBBY FISCHER I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and... MANDY PATINKIN He's between Israel on one side, Iraq and Syria on the other, ... He knows that the Palestinians hav... HENRY KISSINGER I've often made critical comments about settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and in ea... ANGELA MERKEL There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own... NAFTALI BENNETT As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, I... CHUCK SCHUMER Israel in the past few weeks has committed brutal massacres against our people, and the Palestinians... NAFEZ AZZAM What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, thro... NAFTALI BENNETT At the end of that (peace) process, a Palestinian state was always inevitable, ... What other attrib... HENRY KISSINGER It's a stupid idea to believe that somebody can destroy Israel now. The moment Israel complies and a... NASHAT AQTASH [But he lauded U.S. efforts to get the peace talks back on track.] I think it is important to try to... AVI PAZNER The 'day after' begins today, and the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians goes into a ... ALUF BENN The chances are not very good that the Palestinians and the Israelis will cut the only possible deal... AKIVA ELDAR Some of the biggest battles, recognition of the Palestinians as a real people and ending stereotypes... JAMES ZOGBY The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be use... CONRAD BLACK Politically, it will be helpful to Israel to say to the world, here we are, we have taken a concrete... JONATHAN KATZ This is great. The Palestinians have spoken and they want someone to continue the struggle against I... ISMAIL YUSANTO I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution ... YITZHAK RABIN When he talks to the Palestinians he thinks about a referendum in Israel ... He is focusing on the I... AKIVA ELDAR On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures... JIMMY CARTER We are talking about a desire to define the permanent borders of Israel in the framework of an agree... EHUD OLMERT I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, whic... MICHAEL OREN During these three months, the prime minister has to make a heroic attempt to complete the negotiati... YOSSI SARID It reports the acts of violence against Israelis but never mentions the illegal acts on the Palestin... HUWAIDA ARRAF Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the numbe... ISMAIL HANIYEH it is crucial that Palestinians and Israelis cooperate to the fullest extent possible. JAN ELIASSON I am sorry that the Palestinians are always creating a crisis when Secretary Albright visits the are... HAIM RAMON We are committed to the decisions taken unanimously by the Arab summit in Beirut, ... Many Arab stat... JALAL TALABANI First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the... BRENT SCOWCROFT The other major issue you have no doubt heard about the decision to build a fence between Israel and... ELAN PAVLOV Real peace can only be achieved through an end to occupation and the return of all Palestinians to t... MOHAMMAD KHATAMI (The Palestinians) want Israel to acknowledge the moral as well as the political responsibility for ... HISHAM MELHAM The mortal mind alone cannot devise an answer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the true ... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establi... YAIR LAPID There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinia... NADER SAID It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER If Israel wants to live in peace in the region, and it's clear it doesn't want to live in peace in t... FAYSSAL MEKDAD I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a ... HAROLD H. GREENE When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and... MICHAEL LEUNIG If each time the Palestinians and the Israelis have a problem ... the Palestinians strike at Europea... MARC OTTE Some Palestinians are wondering why it shouldn't be three months, or maybe one month or one week. Th... JAMES WOLFENSOHN The departure of Mr Sharon would be carried most heavily on the shoulders of the Palestinians. The P... BASSEM EID We see how America is stereotyped (over there) because America helps Israel (funding their military)... ALLISON HINE I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me... CARLOS GHOSN I think Israelis felt that by completing the withdrawal from Gaza, they had created an opportunity f... DORE GOLD Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it tha... IRVINE WELSH Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestin... ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Palestinians are afraid that (the withdrawal from) Gaza is going to be first and last, ALI JARBAWI It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, an... REUVEN RIVLIN Of course, Mrs. Arafat did not mean poison gas, but tear gas. We agreed with President Clinton that ... SAEB EREKAT The way forward is for Palestinians to realize that suicide bombers and this whole approach of viole... MJ GOHEL If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the ex... EHUD BARAK I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black ... STEPHANIE MILLS As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffa... JIMMY CHIN I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. 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