Arab Israeli Conflict Quotes

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

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  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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• 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.

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  Juan Cole

  Aunt   People   Middle East  

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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.

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  Molly Antopol

  Book   Writing   Thinking  

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

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  Zuheir Mohsen

  Struggle   Islamic   Mean  

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

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

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  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.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Arab Israeli Conflict   France   England  

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

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• The Arab-Israeli conflict is the biggest problem, but small problems shape the daily lives of Israelis. Unless there happens to be a war going on, the Arab-Israeli conflict is irrelevant in daily life.

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  Yair Lapid

  War   Small Problems   Arab Israeli Conflict  

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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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.

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  Ariel Sharon

  Israel   Land   Numbers  

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

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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.

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  John Podhoretz

  Country   War   Reality  

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

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  Steven Spielberg

  Arab Israeli Conflict   Palestinian   Conflict  

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• The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

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  Alain de Botton

  War   Land   Two  

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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.

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  Yitzhak Rabin

  Government   Israel   Firsts  

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• Enough of blood and tears. Enough!

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  Yitzhak Rabin

  Blood   Tears   Arab Israeli Conflict  

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

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• There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

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  Moshe Dayan

  Country   Israel   Cleansing  

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

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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.

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  David Ben-Gurion

  Country   Taken   Israel  

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

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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.

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  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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