"There are currently about 30 terrorist attacks per day in this tiny country of 5.2 million Jews. What if there were 30 terrorist attacks per day in Chicago or Los Angeles or Paris or London?" Maoz Israel Report - April 2002 (commenting on events of March 2002)
"If the Arabs (Muslims) put down their weapons today there would be no more violence. If the Israelis put down their weapons today there would be no more Israel." Shira Sorko-Ram Maoz Israel newsletter May 2004
"We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem." Yasser Arafat ( in Arabic ) on Palestine Radio. ( It has been suggested that this could be a darker, coded, call to Muslim nations to attack Israel with weapons of mass destruction, even if it makes martyrs of millions of Palestinians )
"I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran." 25th April 1972 by Anwar Sadat , president of Egypt who initiated the Yom Kippur war. He was later assassinated by his own countrymen after signing a peace agreement with Israel.
"The Palestinian people accepted the Oslo agreements as a first step and not as a permanent settlement, based on the premise that war and struggle in the land is more efficient than a struggle from a distant land . . . "The Palestinian people will continue the revolution until they achieve the goals of the '65 revolution." ( destruction of Israel ) Abd El Aziz Shahian PA MINISTER OF SUPPLIES [AlAyyam, 30 May 2000]
'We are discussing the current problems and when we speak about Jerusalem it doesn't mean we have forgotten about Hebron or about Jaffa or about Acre . . . We are speaking about the current problems that have priority at a certain time. It doesn't mean that we have given up . . . We have announced a number of times that, from a religious point of view, Palestine from the sea [Mediterranean] to the river [Jordan] is Islamic." Sheikh lkrima Sabri PA-APPOINTED MUFTI OF JERUSALEM AND PALESTINE [PATV, II January 2001]
'Had the US and Israel realized, before Oslo, that all that was left of the Palestinian national movement and the pan-Arab movement was a wooden horse called Arafat or the PLO, they would never have opened their fortified gates and let it inside their walls . . . This effort could have been much better, broader and more significant had we made it clearer to ourselves that the Oslo agreement, or any other agreement is just a temporary procedure, or just a step towards something bigger bigger . . . We distinguish the strategic, long-term goals from the politically phased goals, which we are compelled to accept temporarily due to international pressure . . . Palestine according to the higher strategy is "from the river to the sea." Palestine in its entirety is an Arab land, the land of the Arab nation.' Faisal Husseini PA REPRESENTATIVE FOR JERUSALEM AFFAIRS [Al-Arabi, Egypt, 24 June 2001]
'Whether they return to negotiations or not, and whether they fulfill the agreements or not, the political plan is a temporary agreement, and the conflict remains eternal, will not be locked, and the agreements being talked about are regarding the current balance of power. As to the struggle, it will continue. It may pause at times, but in the final analysis, Palestine is ours from the sea to the river.' Abdullah AI-Hourani CHAIRMAN, PALESTINIAN COUNCIL POLITICAL COMMITTEE [Al Hayat Al Jadida, 14 April 2000]
'When we picked up the gun in '65 and the modem Palestinian revolution began, it had a goal. This goal has not changed, and it is the liberation of Palestine.' Al Hayat Al Jadida, 20 January 2000]
"We fight side by side with our Palestinian brothers against Israel." Fahid Abu Shamala, a fixer for the BBC and other foreign media in the Gaza Strip. (The source of impartial news in the UK ?)
"It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty." Dan Gillerman, Israel's ambassador to the U.N.
“Our terrorist sons are an end-product of our corrupted culture,” Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al-Arabiya television wrote in his daily column published in the pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper. It ran under the headline, “The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists are Muslims!”
"I have no hesitation in saying that we must consider giving the Arab side a large enough force, including a large enough nuclear force, to persuade Israel that it cannot simply do whatever it wants. That is the policy my country [France] pursued in the 1970s when it gave Iraq a nuclear force." French EU parliamentarian Paul Marie Couteax Standing before the EU parliament in Brussels on May 16 2001, after condemning Israel's actions to defend itself against Palestinian terrorism as the "theocratic excesses of this religious state." Couteax declared that Europe should supply the Arab world with nuclear weapons.
[Yasser Arafat] has "feasted on all sorts of funds flowing into the PA, including aid money, Israeli tax transfers, and revenue from a casino and Coca-Cola bottler. Much of the money appears to have gone to pay off others. New Finance Minister Salaam Fayad is cleaning up the PA's finances, cutting off much of Arafat's cash flow." 'Forbes' (the Rich List people) revealing that Yasser Arafat is worth $300m. Reported in Jerusalem Post; Jerusalem; Feb 28, 2003
"There won't be peace in the Middle East until Yasser Arafat learns to love Palestinian children more than he hates the Jews." Richard Booker, quoting former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir, "We will achieve peace when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us."
"How is it that half a billion hostile Arabs have managed to successfully portray themselves as the victims of five million Israeli Jews? . . . . . How did more than a dozen Arab tyrannies successfully portray Israel, the region's lone democracy, as the bad guys in the Middle East? . . . . What Israel has failed at utterly is framing the conflict with the Palestinians in moral terms. This is not a dispute over land. Rather it is a conflict between good and evil . . . . . . . Whatever grievances the Palestinians claim to have against Israel, choosing to settle them by maiming and murdering innocent men, women and children is a crime against God and a sin against humanity. The Jews were put into ghettos and turned into piles of ashes by the Nazis. But they never retaliated by machine-gunning German schoolgirls. . . . . " Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Jerusalem Post Jan 9th 2003
"He who defines the terms, controls the debate." Mike Evans, commenting on the practice of using euphemisms instead of the word "Terrorist", but equally valid to debates on the "Middle East Crisis", which all use Palestinian defined terminology.
"It's not that I place less value on Palestinian lives, but that Chairman Arafat and his chums in Hamas do." Mark Steyn - Daily Telegraph March 30 2002. (Commenting on the practice of dressing up little Palestinian children as suicide bombers and glorifying martyrdom)
"I don’t want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It’s true that there’s also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren’t allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I’m not going to spend my time on this since there is isn’t a whole lot I can do about it." Michael Moore, scourge of George Bush in particular and American government in general, justifying why, in his book, "Stupid White Men" he holds forth on the Middle East condemns Israel without looking any deeper than the usual Anti-Israel media stereotypes.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant." Omar Ahmad, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi - sometimes called a moderate Muslim cleric, whose visit to the UK caused controversy.
"The Israelis have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation."
"We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian .... they are not civilians or innocent."
"We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America!"
"It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al-Harb (non Muslims) is not protected. Because they fight against and are hostile towards the Muslims, they annulled the protection of his blood and his property."
"It is not suicide; it is martyrdom in the name of God. I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an indication of the justice of Allah almighty. Allah is just. Through his infinite wisdom, he has given the weak what the strong do not possess and that is the ability to turn their bodies into bombs as the Palestinians do."
"The fact that he accepted hospitality may be above board. But some people may feel it will have an impact on his approach to the Middle East. The Prime Minister is paid enough not to have to accept hospitality." Norman Baker, MP for Lewes, on Tony Blair's family holiday at the Egyptian government's expense.
Much of the church has acted, and still acts, as though it has been grafted into a Christmas Tree - flashing its attractive lights and decorations, but unconcerned about its loss of roots and wondering why it is spiritually drying up and dying." Chuck Cohen, in "Roots of Our Faith"
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How odd Of God To choose The Jews William Norman Ewer
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But not so odd As those who choose A Jewish God But spurn the Jews T E Brown
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