Mark Pellegrino Quotes

The United States needs to stop putting Israel's wants above Palestinian rights.

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 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.

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.'

It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestine tragedy, there can be no stable peace in the Middle East.

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

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.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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.

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

Throughout the second intifada, America provided unprecedented support for Israel's struggle against Palestinian terrorism and Israel's construction of the security barrier.

No doubt Israel and America have made mistakes in the Middle East. Certainly, Israel was born at the price of considerable dislocation and suffering on the part of the Palestinians. And yes, there will never be a satisfying answer for this.

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

When we distinguish between Israel's right to defend itself and settlements, then we legitimize its security needs; when we distinguish between isolated settlements and the blocs, then we legitimize the settlement blocs.

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.

I think we need to stand with Israel.

We must draw a distinction between understanding and supporting Israel's values and existence, and criticising any Israeli government's policy.

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

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

You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

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.