Khaled Mashal Quotes

It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.

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

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

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

I didn't go into politics out of concern for the Palestinians but out of concern for Israel.

No one was talking about a two-state solution until the '90s, then it became an acceptable solution.

There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy.

Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.

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

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.

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.

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

The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.

The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.

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

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process.

Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.

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

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