Ariel Sharon Quotes

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

We need to see a Palestinian state.

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.

We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

It will be in the long-term interests of the Middle East for Palestine to be a state.

The future of Israel has been a key bipartisan concern for generations of Americans, and it is almost axiomatic that if the Palestinians have no viable future, neither does Israel.

I support Israel. And I have long supported a two-state solution and a democratic and secure state for the Jewish people, with a democratic and viable Palestinian state side-by-side in peace and dignity.

Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

It is clear a Palestinian state is needed.

If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine.

In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted.

Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

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

As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians.

I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.

No one was talking about a two-state solution until the '90s, then it became an acceptable solution.

We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.

Without strong Arab backing, it will be hard, if not impossible, for a Palestinian leader to reach peace with Israel.

If America would really stand behind the two-state solution, they could make real pressure on Israel.

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

The era of a Palestinian state is over.