Mahmoud Abbas Quotes

How have the past four years served Israel or the Palestinians? We want a solution for the sake of humanity.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.

I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

The United States cannot want peace more than the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

The people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.

I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.

Education is the only solution for peace.

There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel.

Conduct peace talks only with those among the Arabs residing in the Land of Israel who are truly willing to recognize the existence of the State of Israel. As to all those who want to continue the battle against Israel, it is incumbent upon us -- including, and above all, the Government and Prime Minister -- to obey the law and wage war against them until their demise.

I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.

Israel will never surrender to hatred.

I support Israel to be a Democratic, Jewish and safe country.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

We want peace and development in all 10 states of South Sudan - we don't want military backing.

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.