Ayman Odeh Quotes

I think it is absolutely inevitable that Palestinians will, and have to, have their own state.

Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.

The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.

Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.

We need to help the Palestinians to stop seeing it greener on the other side of the fence, literally.

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

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

You Palestinians can never see fucking the big picture.

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

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

I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citizens of Israel. I want them to have their own independent state but a demilitarized state.

The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine.

We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.

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

The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.

Palestine isn't a state when it concerns statehood. When it comes to warring, it's a state, yes? The Palestinians, they live in a country, for the purpose of war.

A popular intifada is most beneficial for the Palestinians.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

There cannot be peace in the Middle East without giving Palestinians their full rights.

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

We know there can be no justice in the Middle East without a Palestinian state. But there can be no security in the Middle East without a Palestinian state.

Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.