Nick Rahall Quotes

In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

There is no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. Conflicts are started by human beings, sustained by human beings, and they can be ended by human beings.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Making peace is harder than making war.

Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no military option, either for us or for them, and I'm certainly the only well-known Arab who writes these things - and who writes exactly the same things in the Arab press that I say here.

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

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

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

This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.

There is no such thing as a happy compromise. Israelis and Palestinians cannot become one happy family because they are not one, not happy and not family either. They are two unhappy families who must divide a small house into even smaller apartments. The first step, is to sign peace with clenched teeth, and after signing the contract, start working slowly on a gradual emotional de-escalation on both sides.

Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.

You need to have a secure Israel, which is very clear, and you need to have a Palestinian community that feels it can have hope.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

Peace between Israel and Palestine is a top priority for the European Union, and it will remain a top priority in our political agenda.

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