Grant Shapps Quotes

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.

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

I do not put red lines on the Arab Palestinian nation.

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.

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

The Palestinian Authority has no authority.

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

The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.

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.

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

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 problem is not that there is an entity called Israel. The problem is that the Palestinian state is non-existent.

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

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.

There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

The Palestinian people were governing themselves before the creation of the State of Israel.

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.

We need to see a Palestinian state.

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 truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence.