Quotes About Conflict

It seems like the whole world is either with Israel or with Palestine. It seems like there is nobody who is actually in the middle, because the only loud people are the ones in the extreme.

There are differences of opinion that come up naturally within parties. And certainly Israel and Palestine is one that has demonstrated the differences of opinion.

I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.

We need to expose the lies and educate the Palestinian public that Israel is not the enemy. Israel actually helps the people of Gaza more than anybody else. We need the average Palestinian to see this clearly.

Without strong Arab backing, it will be hard, if not impossible, for a Palestinian leader to reach peace with Israel.

There is a famous saying: 'It's hard to be a Jew.' It's also hard to be a Palestinian. I know that.

The United States needs to stop putting Israel's wants above Palestinian rights.

The Palestinian conflict is the glass ceiling of Israel's economy.

Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.

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.

It is difficult to think of a foreign policy issue that preoccupies and polarizes world opinion as much as the Palestinian question.

The Palestinian people were governing themselves before the creation of the State of Israel.

If you want to boycott Israel because of Palestine, I don't think you actually care, because you're also boycotting 2 million Muslim Palestinian Israelis.

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.

It is clear a Palestinian state is needed.

It's not good for Israel to have a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel.

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

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.

While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.