Saeb Erekat famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Itâ€™s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.
-- Saeb Erekat

#Gun #Violence #Impossible
Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.
-- Saeb Erekat

#Civilization #Israel #Sick
Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy.
-- Saeb Erekat

#Army #Air #Navy
I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.
-- Saeb Erekat

#Mean #Law #Goal
We are a people with no army, no navy, no air force, no arms. It's people, thousands of people, who are feeling, sensing the sense of urgency, fearing for the president of their life - the life of their president, trying to protect their democratic choice, because Arafat is the elected leader of the Palestinian people.
-- Saeb Erekat

#Army #Air #People
It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.
-- Saeb Erekat

#Gun #Violence #Impossible

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
Fear and hatred are the legacy of Ronald Reagan. America's vision of peace and freedom [is being] blasted by the guns of the U.S. Navy in Lebanon, the guns of U.S. paratroopers in Grenada, and the guns of U.S. helicopters in Honduras and El Salvador.
Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
I think violence can never be justified.
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.

Saeb Erekat famous quotes

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