Hanan Ashrawi Quotes
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We are not interested in a symbolic state, and statehood generally is not a concession from an occupying power.
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There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.
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You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.
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It's very clear that Mr. Barak's intentions all along have been to undermine the peace process, to evade it, to avoid it...
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We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.
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Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers...
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We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.
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Sharon may be brutal, but so is Barak...
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Rabin had a greater sense of the historical dimension. He was quite willing to take risks which Barak is not willing to take. Barak seems reluctant, begrudging, hesitant in terms of the peace process.
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It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.
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Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.
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We are not interested in a show of negotiations without substance.
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Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map...
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This really exposes Barak's real intentions when it comes to peacemaking, that either Israelis beat the Palestinians into submission in accepting what Israelis want, or Israel will suspend the peace process and ... pursue a policy which is entirely anti-peace...
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We accepted the U.S. initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast.
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I feel that Sharon is certainly a negative addition. He will sour the atmosphere. He will shift the whole terrain of the discourse to the extreme right.
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We need to stop Sharon. His lethal policies are drawing blood on both sides. That's why we need a serious intervention -- international troops. And we need to end the occupation if there is to be security for both people.
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We can't allow a group or a handful of armed groups or militias to threaten the holding of elections in a fair and free environment. We can't allow them to hijack the electoral process.
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But instead of taking action, he cooked up a deal: freeze everything, don't throw out the corrupt officials, sit and do nothing, grasp onto the excuse of the elections.
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It seems to me as usual they are looking at the wrong address. They should look closer at home. I don't think the Sharon policy of attempting to besiege a whole people ... is a policy of utmost responsibility.
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Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
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I don't see Sharon's new party as a centrist party. It's a party that represents a unilateral approach...
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Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. Now it is clear that Israel needs a leadership that proceeds strongly toward peace, or else the extremist right will hijack the situation.
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Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.