“I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.”

—  Clare Short

Quoted in Weeping Skies http://weepingskies.blogspot.com/ and The Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article643725.ece.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian…" by Clare Short?
Clare Short photo
Clare Short 5
British politician 1946

Related quotes

Ismail Haniyeh photo

“The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.”

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

Rick Santorum photo

“The bottom line is that that is legitimately Israeli country. And they have a right to do within their country just like we have a right to do within our country. If they want to negotiate with Israelis, and all the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they're not Palestinians. There is no "Palestinian."”

Rick Santorum (1958) American politician

This is Israeli land.
Rick Santorum claims everyone who lives in the West Bank is Israeli
2011-11-22
Grace
Kiser
Reuters
http://blogs.reuters.com/political-theater/2011/11/22/rick-santorum-claims-everyone-who-lives-in-the-west-bank-is-israeli/
2012-01-19

Ken Livingstone photo
Leah Tsemel photo
Joseph Massad photo
Barack Obama photo
Naftali Bennett photo
Joseph Massad photo
Ahmad Khatami photo

“Instead of negotiating with the Israeli regime, the Arab states should talk to the Palestinian nation so as to garner divine consent and national popularity.”

Ahmad Khatami (1960) Iranian ayatollah

Iranian cleric slams Arabs for negotiating with Israel http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Iran/212319 27-04-2007.

Joseph Massad photo

“Let us imagine a world where the majority of Israeli and diaspora Jews and their gentile supporters are no longer committed to Jewish supremacy.”

Joseph Massad (1963) Associate Professor of Arab Studies

Massad, in "The Ends of Zionism: Racism and the Palestinian Struggle", Interventions, 2003
On International Jewish Supremacism

Related topics