Hanan Ashrawi Quotes

International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.

May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed.

There is still work to be done, but that remains a crucial lesson, you cannot bring peace and security to people just by signing an agreement. In fact, most peace agreements don't last.

We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force.

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

The Right said, "If we only annex the West Bank, we'll be safe and sound." The Left said, "If we only hand over the West Bank, we'll have peace". The Right said, "Our dead died because of the Left's delusions", while the Left said, "Our dead died because of the Right's fantasies." Rather than face a tragic reality imposed on us from without, we chose to create a simplistic narrative of Right against Left.

No more bloody wars, no more bloody medals

It is very difficult to make a peace with the Palestinians without Hamas. This agreement will be good for the Israelis as well as the Palestinians.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Unfortunately, we have warring in the world, so the youngest minds, the brilliant minds, are sent off to war. I think that, you know, you have brilliant people with great possibilities and that's why I really am not really for war. I really am not.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

You just have to come to grips with the fact that people don't like to be invaded or bombed by anybody. And America has been engaged in that.

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.