Quotes About Peace

You need to have a secure Israel, which is very clear, and you need to have a Palestinian community that feels it can have hope.

Abu Mazen has no more hope for Netanyahu's approach. He's searching for a way to establish the Palestinian state. He doesn't want a militarized struggle with Israel.

I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.

I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.

We know there can be no justice in the Middle East without a Palestinian state. But there can be no security in the Middle East without a Palestinian state.

Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.

I am keen and anxious for the safety of both the Jews and the Palestinians.

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.

The Palestinians, whose national cause guards the gates of Arab-Israeli peace, look forward like their Arab brethren to that comprehensive, just, and lasting peace based on 'land for peace' and compliance with international legitimacy and resolutions.

Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

We're willing to make difficult and hard decisions and compromises to live in peace with our neighbours, but we're entitled to our own country where Jews from around the world can come here, just as Palestinians from around the world can come to the Palestinian state.

It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.

Both peoples, both nations, deserve a nation-state of their own. Palestinians, if they wish so, will go to the Palestinian state; Jews, if they so wish, can go to the Jewish state. And we'll have to have security and demilitarization agreements between us.

Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that's the way to bring about peace. It's counter-productive - it's actually the opposite.

If we see to it that the Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have jobs, we will actually be securing our own future.

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

If there is ever to be an end to the conflict, the Palestinians must recognize the Jewish people's right to a homeland and the existence of an independent Jewish state in the homeland of the Jewish people.

As long as there are no negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel is and will continue to be in a difficult situation.

It's preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country.

It is in Israel's interest not to govern the Palestinians but for the Palestinians to govern themselves in their own state.

I think the U.S. leaders should do more to support our Israeli allies and the Palestinians to find peace.

The relationship between the Jews and Arabs is necessary to help build a bridge between Israelis and Palestinians.

What happens in Israel should be decided between Israel and the Palestinians.