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Quotes About Arab

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
~ Abu Bakar Bashir
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.
~ Paul Weyrich
Other Arab leaders quickly echoed these sentiments, spurred in part by editorializing from Al Jazeera, the Qatari-controlled media outlet that had become the dominant news source in the region, having built its popularity by fanning the flames of anger and resentment among Arabs with the same algorithmic precision that Fox News deployed so skillfully with conservative white voters in the States.
~ Barack Obama
Zionist leaders embraced the plan, but Arab Palestinians, as well as surrounding Arab nations that were also just emerging from colonial rule, strenuously objected. As Britain withdrew, the two sides quickly fell into war. And with Jewish militias claiming victory in 1948, the State of Israel was officially born.
~ Barack Obama
Already at the time of Israel's birth, Ben-Gurion extended his hand in peace to the Arab nations. His hand was rejected, but it remains extended.
~ Ehud Olmert
Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.
~ Hussein of Jordan
Osama bin Laden fervently hoped that attacking the United States would create pressure on American leaders to reduce their support for Middle Eastern regimes. Bin Laden believed that without that American support, the Arab regimes would collapse and would be replaced by Taliban-style rulers.
~ Peter Bergen
The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.
~ Ethan Zuckerman
It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
~ Jack Schwartz
The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
~ Bashar al-Assad
What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization.
~ Mohamed ElBaradei
There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
~ Daniel Barenboim
We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.
~ Edward Said
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
~ Abdullah II of Jordan
and worst of all, the unmentionable Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, in Olaus Wormius' forbidden Latin translation; a book which I had never seen, but of which I had heard monstrous things whispered.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
~ Roger Waters
The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.
~ Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.
~ Richard Engel
During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.
~ Stephen Kinzer
There can't be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.
~ Ayman Odeh