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The Palestinian Authority is facing a supreme test of its credibility.

Amos Gilad

Any Israeli government must cooperate with us and must not ignore the Palestinian side.

Mahmud Abbas

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.

Hanan Ashrawi

Let Rice mind her own business. Palestinian elections are an internal Palestinian matter. We don't interfere in American elections, and we will not accept American or foreign interference in our elections.

Nayef Rajoub

Stop Palestinian attacks against Israel.

Meir Sheetrit

From now on, the responsibility for what happens in the Gaza Strip lies in the hands of the Palestinian Authority .

General Avi Kochavi

It is possible for us to have certain contacts with Israel provided they are made with the main objective of helping solve the Palestinian issue.

Hassan Wirayuda

They will have to go through the workers' passage now. We will have to sit down with the Palestinian Authority in order to find a solution for the problem.

Shlomo Dror

The escalation that has occurred is because (Palestinian Authority President Yasser) Arafat gave a green light to a variety of Palestinian organizations ... to attack Israeli targets.

Dore Gold

[Another Palestinian official called the cease-fire declaration a] trick, ... I invite the Palestinians to use the same trick.

Shimon Peres

He was a great leader and a founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization and his death is a great loss to the Palestinian people.

Ahmed Jibril

We want the truce from our side. It is in the interest of the Palestinian people to continue with the truce.

Abdullah Franji

The US administration and European countries should put pressure ... on the occupier and not the occupied and displaced Palestinian people.

Ismail Haniya

We regret the loss of civilian life, both Israeli and Palestinian, but this attack happened in Tel Aviv, and Tel Aviv is under Israeli security control and not Palestinian.

Abdel Rahman

The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim.

Abu Abir

A new Israeli and Palestinian political landscape is taking shape.

Michel Sabbah

If it was up to the Palestinian terror groups they would try and attack us every hour of every day.

Genmoshe Karadi

The challenge for Abbas is to compel Israel to deal with Palestinians and the Palestinian agenda. Otherwise his credibility is going to suffer enormously.

Mouin Rabbani

The key is with the Palestinian Authority that must impose law and order ... That is the basis that would allow us to move toward a permanent settlement. The first thing is disarming the terrorist groups.

Amos Gilad

We call on the Israeli government to stop these measures which are only intended to isolate the Palestinian Authority.

Mahmud Abbas

There cannot be anything but anger and condemnation for those who've done it, ... I can only say that the Palestinian leadership will do everything it can to arrest and follow up on these actions and do its very best to stop them.

Nabil Sha'ath

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

Bob Hawke

To thwart the wagers that wish to see an internal Palestinian conflict.

Nafez Azzam

Overall Palestinian Authority performance to date has been far from satisfactory.

David Welch

Palestinian society is responsible for its choices and its future through these elections. We can either go toward positive change, and this is what we hope, or we can go backward.

Talal Oukal

The destruction of sacred sites in Gaza proves that the Palestinian Authority must never be entrusted with any Jewish or Christian Holy sites.

Abraham Cooper

Without a Palestinian partner, Israel needs to take the initiative itself.

Avi Dichter

Without doubt, this attack was committed by a lone Palestinian who was not part of any movement which will make the search for him more difficult.

Gideon Ezra

I call on the American administration to respect ... the will of the Palestinian people and the result of the ballot.

Ismail Haniya

There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Silvan Shalom

I am only analyzing and repeating the known Palestinian positions.

Nabil Amr

We plan to discuss the results of elections in Palestine and their international aspect, particularly the Western countries' demands to the Palestinian government.

Abu Marzuk

We must await events in the Palestinian territories, what the government will be, what its program will be, what Palestinian relations with leading regional actors will be and what will happen in Israel.

Alexander Kalugin

A hungry man is an angry man. We hope the world will not allow the Palestinian people to suffer, because this will only make people more radical.

Aziz Dweik

We welcome the clear condemnation voiced by the president Abbas and regret that the Palestinian government did not follow his example.

Denis Simonneau

We call upon all American and British citizens to leave Palestinian territories immediately otherwise they will be subject to kidnapping and other consequences.

Abu Qusai

Basically, the Palestinian Authority has put itself in a position where every month it will face the same crisis.

Nigel Roberts

Any weakness ... will result in a negative effect -- not only for Israel, but also for the Palestinian people and for the international community.

Tzipi Livni

We call on you to transfer all aid to the Palestinian treasury.

Ismail Haniyeh

The liberation of the Gaza Strip is not the end of the road to comprehensive liberation. We will not rest until we liberate all Palestinian land crowned by Jerusalem.

Ismail Hanieh

It seems that already 15,000 persons have been displaced as a result of the construction of the wall. This new generation of displaced persons creates a new category of Palestinian refugees.

John Dugard

We appeal to the Palestinian people for calm and self-control.

Ahmed Bahar

There is no winner and loser here. The elections are just the first step on the way to building a Palestinian political system.

Ismail Haniyeh

The internal Palestinian scene will cease to be monopolized by the PLO. We are talking about a major shift and a major change in Palestinian political history.

Basem Ezbidi

The Israeli occupiers should recognize Palestinian rights first.

Ismail Haniya

Either we emerge with a strong parliament and government or we have the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.

Salah Abdel Shafi

We don't want to take the role of the Palestinian Authority.

Shlomo Dror

The administration is so invested in Iraq, it really doesn't have any other ... political capital to spend on other theaters, like the Palestinian-Israeli theater.

Fawaz Gerges

[If Abbas is] going to collect the guns, that means a war without mercy, ... It's impossible to surrender our guns and to enter the Palestinian Authority jails again.

Mahmoud Zahar

Our plan is that ... by the election, the Palestinian street will be cleaned of militias and illegal weapons.

Rafiq Husseini

We will put the Palestinian house in order.

Ismail Haniya

In exchange for the evacuation of ... people who shouldn't have been there in the first place, (Israel) is going to steal more and more Palestinian land.

Diana Buttu

The Palestinian tendency to commit suicide is now showing itself in its political life.

Tommy Lapid

Our movement has become stronger and more open-minded and we should take more responsibility to explain the Palestinian issue clearly.

Saied Siam

We are new to this business, and I don't want to disrupt the system that has been in place for 30 years. I also believe that a divorce of the Israeli and Palestinian economies wouldn't be good for either side.

Bassil Jabir

European countries have not granted visas to members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, who were elected in a democratic way.

Mikhail Margelov

We liberated a small part of our motherland and we will not give up our weapons before the end of occupation in all the Palestinian territories.

Al Aqsa

The Palestinian Authority is essential to the stability of the region. The collapse of the institution is not easily replaced.

Jihad Wazir

We will not rest until we liberate all Palestinian land, crowned by Jerusalem.

Ismail Haniya

The beginning of the Palestinian freedom is also a beginning of reconciliation between the two peoples, Palestinian and Israeli.

Michel Sabbah

At the moment, everybody keeps the Palestinian people from suffering the consequences from their own policy.

Dan Schueftan

This withdrawal from Gaza should be a real, comprehensive one, from the air, sea and our borders. This is our position and on this we agree with Egypt and the Palestinian Authority .

Ismail Hanieh

Neither the French medical reports, nor the Palestinian reports managed to come to the exact reasons that led to Arafat's death.

Ahmed Qurei

That is a possibility. The prime minister said providing assistance to a Palestinian government that doesn't commit to those principles ... would be difficult.

William Stairs

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.

Ariel Sharon

He is not going to negotiate. The negotiation is over. The opposing points are very clear. We are waiting on what is the Palestinian answer.

Chaim Ramon

They all agreed that the quartet continued to support the interim Palestinian government.

Stephane Dujarric

The Palestinian people under Israeli occupation are now suffocated and besieged.

Nasser Al kidwa

We demand from (Palestinian leader Yasser) Arafat that he arrest immediately all the terrorists who are loose now.

Avi Pazner

An independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Ahmed Qurei

The international community should interfere here. Not only to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority, but also to pressure the Israelis to stop this kind of phenomenon.

Bassem Eid

We stopped the military work to give credibility to the Palestinian Authority, without canceling other options.

Abu Abbas

This is a great day. It is a day of happiness ... because it means an enormous step forward toward the freedom of the Palestinian people.

Marc Otte

I hope that we will not give the impression that Palestinian leaders will start parachuting in the West Bank and Gaza from Washington.

Saeb Erakat

Based on the assessment of Germany and European Union observers, elections in the autonomous Palestinian areas were basically held in a free and fair manner.

Ulrich Wilhelm

There is tremendous displeasure with the function and dysfunction of the government and the Palestinian Authority.

Hanan Ashrawi

[The Palestinian National Authority, in a statement, accused Israeli forces of committing] another brutal crime, ... targeted and killed in cold blood, by the fire of the Israeli tanks.

James Miller

We are going to meet in the next few days to discuss the nature of our political partnership and a number of other issues of interest to the Palestinian people.

Ismail Haniya

I hope that election declaration will remain on paper. The meaning of that move is the cutting of the Palestinian state. It's a crazy move.

Avshalom Vilan

We will not intervene in any aspect of Palestinian life ... except to convince people in a polite way.

Mahmoud Ramahi

This is an important effort on our part to help rebuild the Palestinian economy and infrastructure.

David Welch

President Arafat and the Palestinian Authority do not want to divide the city, do not want to build a wall, do not want to put up barbed wires.

Marwan Kanafani

When we are in the position of decision-making and in the Palestinian Legislative Council, this will definitely open more horizons.

Saied Siam

It is clear that as long as Islamic Jihad remains armed, it will have the ability both to kill innocent civilians and to kill chances for peace. What is needed is a continuous ongoing effort by the Palestinian leadership to disarm these extremist groups.

Mark Regev

The security issues were settled between American and Palestinian officials.

Ahmed Tibi

We are not partner to any agreement between various terror groups and the Palestinian Authority. We deal only with the Palestinian Authority.

Raanan Gissin

Common consensus of Arab-Americans and Jewish-Americans for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

James Zogby

The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.

Saeed Seyam

It is useless to discuss the situation in Palestine...without the Palestinian representatives.

Mikhail Margelov

There seems to be a new Palestinian and Israeli political reality, despite the many complications and hesitations that surround it.

Michel Sabbah

We restate our condemnation of the loss of innocent lives, Palestinian and Israelis, and we call upon the occupying power to do the same.

Riyad Mansour

French and Palestinian doctors who treated the martyred brother found that medicine could not find the disease which infected Arafat, neither viruses, nor germs, nor AIDS, nor bacteria.

Ahmed Qureia

I'm expecting an almost daily crisis, or a daily debate between the presidency, on one hand, and the Palestinian Cabinet on the other hand.

Wadia Abu Nasser

The Bush administration should first confess it has made a major error in pressing for elections too quickly. [It should also] look at the Palestinian Authority as it would a place where Nazis or Communists have won electoral victory, that is, as an enemy, and send it no further funding or other aid.

Daniel Pipes

It was agreed that there will be no military shows in the Palestinian streets.

Saeed Seyam

This will only add fuel to the fire. We call on the Israelis to immediately stop these moves and to allow the Palestinian Authority to do its job.

Ahmed Qorei

They can wave any flag they want, but we expect the Palestinian Authority to take full responsibility.

Dan Harel

I'm voting like everyone else. This is a good day and this is a good feeling that I am living to see the Palestinian people vote.

Alaa Sanakra

A milestone in the building of a Palestinian state.

Ahmed Tibi

It's a trade-off. The Gaza Strip for the settlement blocks; the Gaza Strip for Palestinian land; the Gaza Strip for unilaterally imposing borders. They don't know how long they've got. That's why they're building like maniacs.

Dror Etkes

We want a government that is for the Palestinian people, and if we can't do that, then there are many options -- one of which is a government of technocrats.

Ghazi Hamad

Iran only gives spiritual, legal and political support to the Palestinian resistance.

Gholamhossein Elham

The worst thing about leaving is knowing I can leave this stuff. I will never understand what it is like to be a Palestinian.

Chris Towne

The Zionists will swallow the same bitter drink that each Palestinian family has drunk from before.

Abu Dajana

The Palestinian leadership could have built schools, hospitals and factories instead of a casino. This is a big disgrace and we will put an end to it.

Nayef Rajoub

This is another indication of Israeli policy, which ignores the existence of the Palestinian people.

Salah Bardawil

They will also be advised that they should keep all the achievements the Palestinian people have made regarding peace and security.

Omar Suleiman

But we will increase quickly the number of hours in order to enlarge the period of time in which the Palestinian population can cross the border.

Genpietro Pistolese

Everyone assumed [the Clinton peace negotiations] would lead to the creation of a Palestinian state, ... The U.S., in effect, was working on what would be a Palestinian state, but the articulated policy was less than a Palestinian state.

Shibley Telhami

His resignation is going to affect the Palestinian Authority very negatively. He was trusted by the international community, and this trust will disappear when he goes.

Ali Jarbawi

If at least someone is trying to find jobs for people, then you have ... stability and maybe in the long run you will help the (Palestinian) Authority per se.

Ali Jarbawi

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

The Palestinian people should not be punished because they chose democracy.

Mahmud Abbas

I say to you in the name of the president that we (Palestinian factions) have no way other than dialogue. Our cause is one.

Tayeb Abdel Rahim

Now the Palestinian Authority has to re-evaluate the decisions from last night and the necessary steps taken to protect the Palestinian people.

Nabil Amr

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Yasser Arafat

The deal is over. They are very glad of this deal. The price has been a very, very, very big price to pay on the Palestinian side.

Hanna Nasser

We call on the Palestinians to do all they can to end these attacks, ... and we will underscore this need with the Palestinian delegation that is coming next week.

Greg Sullivan

[Palestinian officials said implementation of a cease-fire would take time.] It is a gradual process that will take some days, ... I hope the government of Israel will give this ... declaration of Chairman Arafat a chance to carry on and succeed.

Ahmed Tibi

There will be no (Israeli) control on those crossing nor will there be any military presence on the border other than Egyptian-Palestinian.

Jibril Rajoub

The only way to go forward is to continue the peace talks, and if we deny Arafat and deny the Palestinian Authority we just increase the tensions in the region.

Anna Lindh

Despite the happy outcome, we ask ourselves about the causes of this incident that targeted Egypt ... which has never abandoned the righteous cause of the Palestinian people.

Suleiman Awad

The plan, the idea, the concept is to isolate Jerusalem from the Palestinian hinterland, and to say -- at the very least - - if we agree to some kind of mini-Palestinian state, it won't be with a capital in Jerusalem.

David Landau

The U.S. administration and European countries should put pressure ... on the occupier and not the occupied and displaced Palestinian people.

Ismail Haniyeh

The withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is basically unilateral and Israel has not fully coordinated everything in the withdrawal with the Palestinian side. This is why we will not attend.

Abu Khousa

The French and Palestinian doctors have concluded that there was no known cure for the illness that afflicted the president.

Ahmed Qurei

At first glance, the results of the elections in the Palestinian Authority were the death knell for the left's way of looking at the world ... and affirm the Israeli right's understanding of the essence of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Uzi Benziman

The Palestinian Authority rejects Israeli accusations that it is responsible for the explosion.

Tayeb Abdel Rahim

The Palestinian people should regain their liberty and land with a state and a capital and the Israeli people should have security.

Michel Sabbah

For all its vanity about its own courage, the film is afraid of itself. It is soaked in the sweat of its idea of even-handedness. The death of innocents was an Israeli mistake but a Palestinian objective.

Leon Wieseltier

The Palestinian Authority honoring its commitments in the fight against terrorism is a prerequisite for moving forward with the political dialogue.

Mark Regev

We will not surrender and we will fight with courage. We will face our fate together with the Palestinian people bravely.

Ahmed Saadat

The Jordanian government considers such practices in contradiction with the essence of Jordanian-Palestinian relations.

Nasser Judeh

This is a very dangerous act, ... They targeted one of the Palestinian security leaders.

Ahmed Qureia

My plea to my Palestinian friends is just a simple plea, ... Don't do anything on May 4 because all hell will break loose and all your achievements will go down the drain.

Tom Lantos

These activities contradict the positive commitments by the new Palestinian government not to use the Jordanian arena for any purposes that harm Jordan's security or for meddling in its internal affairs.

Nasser Joudeh

It's not about hate. I don't hate Muslims. This is not about Islam. This is about terrorism impacting the Palestinian way of life and Israel way of life.

Josh Stulman

We do not hesitate to apologize to the Palestinian people for the mistakes that have been committed in recent years.

Marwan Barghouti

We wish all the best for the new PLC, and I hope that its members would fulfill their promises they presented to the Palestinian people during the election campaign.

Rawhi Fattouh

We are going to choose the candidate who enjoys the widest Palestinian consensus because we want a national unity government.

Osama Hamdan

Extremely damaging to the Palestinian cause.

Yasser Arafat

But there is no doubt that the Palestinian Authority is going through a suffocating financial crisis. There is a lack of foreign aid, and it will be difficult to continue in this way, so we need to reorganize.

Salam Fayyad

The aid cannot be a sword over the heads of the Palestinian people to blackmail our people.

Esmail Haniya

The EU is leaving no stone unturned to try to secure the release of the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian medic.

Emma Udwin

We left Gaza and they continue to shoot at us from there, so if we leave another area will we have quiet? Israel will have to go back in, like a zipper -- go in, go out -- in the absence of a Palestinian leader ready to put an end to the militias.

Efraim Inbar

The Arab Boycott Bureau has been an ineffectual economic weapon, it has clearly not damaged the Israeli economy, but it did have political impact. As Arab leaders consider lifting it they should ensure that the Palestinian economy draws substantial benefits. Such a move would have the added benefit of narrowing the economic gap between both communities, making negotiation more feasible.

Ziad J. Asali