Maysoon Zayid Quotes

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

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

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don't understand what is going on.

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.

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

What we get in the States is a pro-Palestinian point of view.

If U.S. focuses on truth and justice, we'll realize that Israel has been there for 3,000 years - the same language, the same people, the same culture for 3,000 years - and it's always astonishing to me that we somehow now think that they're the occupiers.

As a person committed to human rights and international law and the right of self-determination, I would like to see the occupation end. And then it is up to the Palestinians themselves to decide what they want.

I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

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.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

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

The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.

We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

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

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'

We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.

The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel.

I am passionately invested in the survival of Israel and everything Israel represents. But I am extremely critical of much of its policy. I believe that the occupation must end. And if it doesn't, it will end Israel. I'm not in favor of settlements.

It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.