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If Sharon is going to escalate by invading cities, I believe that the Palestinians will escalate their resistance.

Abdel Aziz Rantisi

I expect Arab leaders, especially President Mubarak ... to call for the Palestinians to cease their hostilities and to return to negotiations with Israel. That was very important. Unfortunately, it was not mentioned there.

Nachman Shai

That's the first rocket that landed in the kibbutz. The Palestinians have since fired others, but they land mostly in the fields.

Gidi Sabag

The E.U. has a long tradition of supporting the Palestinians.

Robert Lowe

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

Shimon Peres

The problem is that he became a negative icon in the Arab world, in the eyes of the Palestinians, in the eyes of the entire international community.

Akiva Eldar

Iran has no physical presence in Palestine, and all we do is aid the Palestinians spiritually, ideologically and medically.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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

After 38 years, we are leaving Gaza in order to enable the Palestinians to run their own lives...Now it is their turn to show they can run a normal life, a normal economy, have a new beginning.

Gideon Meir

Maybe it is time for the Palestinians to build their own economic life without leaning on Israel.

Shlomo Dror

This is great. The Palestinians have spoken and they want someone to continue the struggle against Israel.

Ismail Yusanto

This separation wall does not separate Israelis and Palestinians. It separates Palestinians from Palestinians. It annexes 300,000 Palestinians into Israel.

Saeb Erakat

Sharon gave and gave and gave, the Palestinians got and got and got, and my question is, what did we get? Nothing and nothing and nothing.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The disengagement from Gaza is a bold step. It has changed the political landscape. It offers a new chance to do something different between the Israelis and Palestinians, and we would like to see if it can bear further fruit.

David Welch

That may cause difficulties for the Palestinians, but the priority is to ensure Israeli security.

Amos Gilad

A process that the Israel government ... took upon itself in order to extend our hand in peace to the Palestinians. This is what Israel is willing to do in order to live in peace with the Palestinians.

Gideon Meir

Yes, sure terrorism must be met with an iron fist, and terrorism is something you have to fight strongly, on the other hand we need to call to negotiate and I will call the Palestinians to come back to the negotiating table.

Amram Mitzna

The Palestinians came with extreme and illogical positions and demands that the Israeli prime minister was not able to accept, and therefore we reached the conclusion that we cannot reach agreement at the moment that would put an end to the conflict. That's why we are going back home.

Gadi Baltiansky

Disengagement will not solve the massive economic problems the Palestinians are facing, ... Gaza should have much freer access to the outside world.

Nigel Roberts

I also had to make contact with native Palestinians and learn how I would go from Jerusalem to the checkpoint between Israel and the West Bank. Different routes were inaccessible, and some of the checkpoints were closed.

Paul Kennedy

I think their basic view is, 'When you, the Palestinians, show that you're doing it, we'll get involved. If not we're not going to invest a lot of political capital.' I think that is the message.

David Makovsky

If each time the Palestinians and the Israelis have a problem ... the Palestinians strike at European people and European interests, it will complicate matters greatly.

Marc Otte

I don't think he would have been able to bridge the great differences between the Palestinians and Israel.

Yitzhak Rabin

These are monies that belong to the Palestinians and should not be withheld. It follows that the formation of a new government and the approval of its program should be awaited and that actions prior to that would be premature.

Alvaro De Soto

The president is deeply concerned and he calls on Mr. Arafat and the Palestinians to take concrete measures to end the violence immediately.

Gordon Johndroe

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

Norman Finkelstein

I am sorry that the Palestinians are always creating a crisis when Secretary Albright visits the area.

Chaim Ramon

I would like to arrive at a situation where the Palestinians are begging the U.S. to stop the Israelis. Then let's come talk again.

Meir Sheetrit

The World Bank will focus on developing Gaza Strip potential economy as well as on the bilateral economic relationship between Israel and the Palestinians.

Nigel Roberts

We see exactly what's going on. Anytime that there's a chance for any resumption of the peace process ... this is what the Palestinians are doing.

Arye Mekel

This could provide some balance against Israel and help the Palestinians in their negotiations. We have to take our rights because they are not going to be given to us.

Amr Moussa

America will try to put pressure on Arab and Muslim countries not to give the PA money, but those countries are interested in helping the Palestinians so we are not worried.

Ghazi Hamad

Until the Palestinians can show that they can act against the terrorist groups, there is going to be a consensus not to give more. If things are quiet for six months then we could begin to see action.

Gerald Steinberg

For the Palestinians, the whole national agenda is on the table. Do they want continuity or do they want change?

Nader Said

I don't see how the Israeli people are served by another house here, another house there, when the big picture is to create a partnership with the Palestinians.

David Makovsky

I categorically deny this report, which is completely baseless, ... It's inconceivable that Egyptian soldiers should have opened fire on the Palestinians after letting 3,000 cross the border for family reunions.

Suleiman Awad

This is a historic day for Palestinians -- this is a great day.

Ismail Haniya

From my own observation, I can tell you that there is some concern by many Palestinians about their daily living, their daily income, and people quite afraid from the chances of some humanitarian catastrophe.

Wadia Abu Nasser

I'm not going to change my ideas about the Palestinians.

Alessandro Bernardini

International protection for the Palestinians is something that must be taken seriously by the United States and the international community.

Saeb Erekat

The fact that there are Palestinians involved in shipping these weapons deeply troubling.

Richard Boucher

Israel has taken the necessary steps to further the prospects of peace with the Palestinians.

David Baker

It is crucial that Palestinians and Israelis cooperate to the fullest extent possible.

Jan Eliasson

We should be alert to the danger that cutting off assistance prior to the formation of a new government might be interpreted by the Palestinians and the Arab world as a punishment for the way the Palestinians voted in January.

Alvaro De Soto

Palestinians were promised their state. Originally they were the owners of the entire area.

Ashraf Qazi

These elections ... will put an end to the era of dictatorship by one party or faction in decision-making in Palestinians political life. They will set the cornerstone for new nationalist institutions based on merit and probity ... and will establish a nation of law.

Abdel Bari Atwan

Saves Israel again from the embarrassment that the haste of the government has caused throughout the world and from the feeling we have imposed unnecessary injustices on many Palestinians.

Yosef Lapid

The biggest benefit to the Palestinians in attending this year's exhibition will be the opportunity to network with foreign companies and investors. There are also possibilities of working with Israeli companies.

Moshe Lilos

The Palestinians will make a huge mistake if they return to terrorism and violence. It has brought upon them disaster after disaster in the last five decades.

Tzahi Hanegbi

The criticism has been that the resolutions were not even-handed and that Israel was singled out for more criticism more often than the Palestinians were.

Michael Byers

Palestinians are afraid that (the withdrawal from) Gaza is going to be first and last.

Ali Jarbawi

To our dismay, the Palestinians have brought this on themselves through the rioting.

Shlomo Dror

A boxing gym is a melting pot. In my gym, I have Palestinians training next to Israelis. I have men and women ... as young as 7 and my oldest is 79.

Bruce Silverglade

I believe that if the situation continues, crime rates and chaos will increase which will make the Palestinians' life in Gaza more miserable than those years under the Israeli occupation.

Abdel Shafi

Palestinians are more excited to visit the United States (because) they are not allowed outside the country. When kids are leaving (the country), everything is documented.

Allison Hine

And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East'. And by God I'm gonna do it'.

Nabil Shaath

Water is an undercurrent to tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

Sandra Postel

There has been too much suffering and too much death for both Israelis and Palestinians.

William Burns

The departure of Mr Sharon would be carried most heavily on the shoulders of the Palestinians. The Palestinians had big expectations.

Bassem Eid

The Palestinians are expecting the new administration in Washington to take seriously the threats of the Sharon agenda.

Mahdi Abdel Hadi

I think they're accustomed to seeing the Palestinians acting different from other Arab regimes.

Rime Allaf

It seems that settlers are able to terrorize Palestinians and destroy their trees and crops with impunity.

John Dugard

Certainly, if the Palestinians pick up the phone.

Chaim Ramon

Sharon has multiple images. One of them is bad - mainly because of what he did in Lebanon and against the Palestinians in the last few years.

Dr. Mohamed Kadry

Suicide attacks are not limited to the Palestinians. There can be Jewish suicide attackers. Their first target is the prime minister. We have no experience dealing with such extremists.

Avi Dichter

This is a conscious declaration of war against the Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the Palestinians in general, ... It is total defiance of the spirit of the signed (peace) agreement. What more can be expected of the Palestinians?

Ahmed Tibi

I regret to inform you that since Friday, April 7, the Israeli occupying forces have killed at least 18 Palestinians, including a 6-year-old boy, and have injured scores more, many critically. The international community must intervene in order to avert more death, destruction and suffering being inflicted by Israel.

Riyad Mansour

Because I lack faith in the ability of the Palestinians to maintain peace or return anything for what I see as a gift to them — an unsolicited gift.

Richard Rosen

Postponing the polls will have adverse impact on the Palestinians.

Saeed Seyam

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

It reports the acts of violence against Israelis but never mentions the illegal acts on the Palestinians and the militants fighting for peace on both sides.

Huwaida Arraf

During these three months, the prime minister has to make a heroic attempt to complete the negotiations with the Palestinians ... and to initiate early elections.

Yossi Sarid

Broadly speaking, what we've seen sends a message to the international community, to the Palestinians and to Israelis, that more is possible, whether by agreement (with the Palestinians) or not by agreement.

Yossi Alpher

Why doesn't Israel disarm its settlers who shoot and kill Palestinians?

Ahmed Qurie

It's a stupid idea to believe that somebody can destroy Israel now. The moment Israel complies and accepts for us to live in a state beside Israel, I assure you we, the independent Palestinians, will fight anybody who threatens that agreement.

Nashat Aqtash

There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinian cause. And some people who feel he is the only strongman in Israel who would be able to implement any agreement and enforce it on his own people.

Nader Said

The most important part of the commission is that you have a process that is credible, ... The Palestinians, in particular, feel that the U.S. has jumped to the conclusion of blaming them first and they have wanted to investigate that.

Shibley Telhami

Now they (the Palestinians) are having elections and then we will see who will become leader after the election but whoever is leader is the person the European Union will be talking to.

Per Stig Moeller

We have no say in anything. What will we do if the Palestinians declare a state? How can we even stop them?

Reuven Rivlin

If all options are closed before the Palestinians to get their rights, then only God knows what the Palestinians would do.

Abu Abbas

It's clear that Gaza first cannot be Gaza only — there's no question about that but at the same time, Palestinians also need to rise to the challenge.

Aaron Miller

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

Jane Harman

He calls upon Palestinians and Israelis to do their utmost to maintain calm at this difficult moment.

Stephanie Dujarric

Since the Palestinians are beginning to wage something that approximates a guerrilla war, our helicopter attack was a signal that if there is one, we have the answer to it.

Ephraim Sneh

Europeans in the region are generally there to improve the living conditions of Palestinians. Those who make threats should bear that in mind.

Emma Udwin

Simply don't trust the Palestinians.

Ehud Olmert

Jerusalem and the Temple Mount are the cornerstones of Jewish identity. No Israeli prime minister will ever be able to sign a document that gives up sovereignty of the Temple Mount to the Palestinians.

Ehud Barak

The real story is how the Palestinians will handle this.

Edward Walker

I do not think that in this situation we can transfer the towns to the Palestinians. They are not exerting any control.

Zeev Boim