“My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.”
Tom DeLay (1947) American Republican politician
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5822374/ On the State of Israel] (August 31 2004)
2000s
As quoted by Luc de Barochez, Reza Pahlavi : «Lançons une campagne de désobéissance civile» http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/20060608.FIG000000177_reza_pahlavi_lancons_une_campagne_de_desobeissance_civile.html, June 8, 2006. <br class="br">Interviews, 2006 <br class="br">Context: As long as this regime will exist, none of the main world problems, peace between Israelis and Palestinians, religious fanaticism, terrorism and the proliferation of WMDs will be able to be solved. It is a race against the clock. Will Iran become democratized before the regime gets the nuclear weapon? That’s where the crux of the matter is. The West must support democratic movements like it did in South Africa, in Eastern Europe or in Latin America.
“My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.”
Tom DeLay (1947) American Republican politician
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5822374/ On the State of Israel] (August 31 2004)
2000s
Ismail Haniyeh (1963) Palestinian politician
"An Interview with Ismail Haniyeh" http://www.pforp.net/Haniyeh.what.takes.succeed.asp Partners for Peace. March 15, 2006
Ahmad Khatami (1960) Iranian ayatollah
Iranian cleric slams Arabs for negotiating with Israel http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Iran/212319 27-04-2007.
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Speech at AIPAC. (2 March 2007) http://www2.iland.net/inews/story.php?storyid=1038226&class=iraq <br class="br">2007
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Interview by Ahmed Nassef, April 29, 2004
Quotes 2000s, 2004
Ralph Bunche (1904–1971) American diplomat
in Indonesia, Palestine, and Kashmir - has demonstrated convincingly that parties to the most severe conflict may be induced to abandon war as the method of settlement in favour of mediation and conciliation, at a merciful saving of untold lives and acute suffering. Unfortunately, there may yet be some in the world who have not learned that today war can settle nothing, that aggressive force can never be enough, nor will it be tolerated. If this should be so, the pitiless wrath of the organized world must fall upon those who would endanger the peace for selfish ends. For in this advanced day, there is no excuse, no justification, for nations resorting to force except to repel armed attack.
Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time (1950)
Melanie Phillips (1951) British journalist
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001241.html