Ehud Olmert Quotes

If you want to boycott Israel because of Palestine, I don't think you actually care, because you're also boycotting 2 million Muslim Palestinian Israelis.

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

Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine.

Syria refuses to take responsibility for curtailing Palestinians fighting for their despoiled homeland. Palestine is a sacred cause that will never die.

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

The Palestinian people choose how to fight against the occupation.

The United States needs to stop putting Israel's wants above Palestinian rights.

BDS has been used as a tactic to raise awareness for Palestinian people, including women and their children.

I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.

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

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.

Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians.

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

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

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

Since 1948 Arab leaders have approached the Palestine problem in an irresponsible manner. They have not looked into the future. They have no plan or approach. They have used the Palestine people for selfish political purposes. This is ridiculous and, I could say, criminal.

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

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

I am very glad to express my approval and hearty sympathy … in behalf of restoration of Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people.

I say to America, Europe, and the West: It is in your interests to change your relations and policies regarding the Arab and Islamic nation and the Palestinian cause. Because we are winning, it is in your interests to deal with the victors, not the losers.