(112 quotes found)
“We must expel the Arabs and take their places.”
David Ben-Gurion
“Among the really difficult problems of the world, [the Arab-Israeli conflict is] one of the simplest and most manageable.”
Walter Lippman
“The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.”
Randall Price
“There is nothing defined, but all that we have heard from the Arab and Islamic states, officially and from the public, is reassuring.”
Ismail Haniyeh
“No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.”
Yitzhak Rabin
“Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief”
Honore de Balzac
“forfeit the lives of Arabs.”
Azmi Bishara
“The only way to solve the problem (between Jews and Arabs) is to lower the friction between the two peoples. There can't be peaceful coexistence in one national state, we can't live together in the same apartment. So there should be a separate Jewish state and Arab state.”
Avigdor Lieberman
“There already has been a drift away from U.S. assets by Arab investors. You may well have a further drift.”
Angus Blair
“With Versailles (the treaty) in 1919, we viewed the Arabs as largely tribal, bedouin, backward. They couldn't govern themselves... the French, British, provided the stable government that allowed commercial transactions.... As a consequence of our lack of confidence in them, we've communicated that democracy is a vital, difficult option for everyone but them.”
Bob Kerrey
