Ariel Sharon Quotes

We have said very clearly that we will never put down our arms while there is occupation and if one Palestinian prisoner remains in an Israeli jail.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.

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

The problem is not that there is an entity called Israel. The problem is that the Palestinian state is non-existent.

… a crime against the Palestinian people.

No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation and suffering on the part of the Palestinians. And yes, there will never be a satisfying answer for this.

The Palestinians should have understood by now that what they haven't gotten today they won't be given tomorrow.

Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else.

Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated them.

The Six-Day War laid a foundation of deep hatred toward Israel 50 years ago. I said this at a very early moment back then, when people were chanting about liberating ancestral land. I was quick to say that regardless of the future of these territories, liberated they are not, because the term liberation only applies to human beings and not to land, not to real estate.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

Israel's open-ended control over millions of noncitizen Palestinians ... has strained the country's otherwise robust democracy. The festering conflict and the country's lack of defined, recognized borders have encouraged extreme nationalism and divided Israelis. Indeed, Israel's continued control over Palestinian affairs has strengthened chauvinistic, racist, and violent tendencies on the fringes of the Israeli right.

Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.

We need to help the Palestinians to stop seeing it greener on the other side of the fence, literally.

It is inconceivable that we will recognize the right of our enemy [Israel] over any piece of territory on Palestinian soil.

For most Iraqis, the Israeli-Palestinian issue was always a foil for their subjugation.

The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland, and inconsistent with the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, particularly the right to self-determination

No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it