Ralph Bunche Quotes
This problem cannot be solved on the basis of abstract justice … Both Arabs and Jews are here to stay.
Ralph Bunchee, 1904-1971, U. N. Undersecretary General, Nobel Laureate in Peace, Letter to his wife about Palestine, 1947
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While Ben Gurion’s strategy has been successful with many Arab citizens of Israel, it has not been completely so that the standard of living of Israeli Arabs is on the average still not quite the equal of the Jewish citizens. For those Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, they have had the worst of both worlds—the occupation by Israel and dependence on the Palestinian Authority for economic development which has never occurred despite the fact that huge sums of money have gone to the Palestinian Authority for the purpose.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat
South Africa’s transition from apartheid white minority rule to an interracial society with Black majority rule was one of the great political achievements in history. The Black leadership set a tone of reconciliation and inclusiveness that there was neither back retribution and vengeance, nor extensive white flight. Tutu and Nelson Mandella were two of those most resonsible for the leadership, but the good will and Christian charity of the South African blacks was the key to the success where all other white dominated African nations were NOT able to transition without extensive violence and/or flight.
Wilson was a descended from a line of fundamentalist Presbyterian Ministers who believed firmly that God ordained the Holy Land for the Jewish People. Even though the WWI peace was the main topic of the Versailles Treaty negotiations, because the Turks made the poor judgment to ally themselves with the Germans and the Ottoman Empire was to be broken up. There was much lobbying by Zionists of many countries and many Arab groups even then.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat. This was the famous speech that started the peace process in motion.
Hamas of one of the very few organizations whose very charter was opposed to all forms of diplomacy for the settlement of problems.
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th Century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. In the List of black Nobel laureates he is the first African American and first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations and played a major role in both the decolonization process and numerous peacekeeping operations sponsored by the UN. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy. At the UN, Bunche gained such fame that Ebony magazine proclaimed him perhaps the most influential African American of the first half of the 20th Century and "[f]or nearly a decade, he was the most celebrated African American of his time both [in the US] and abroad."
