“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”

“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎”

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”

“Dominated by Zionism's particular concept of nationality, the State of Israel still refuses, sixty years after its establishment, to see itself as a republic that serves its citizens. One quarter of the citizens are not categorized as Jews, and the laws of the state imply that Israel is not their state nor do they own it. The state has also avoided integrating the local inhabitants into the superculture it has created, and has instead deliberately excluded them. Israel has also refused to be a consociational democracy (like Switzerland or Belgium) or a multicultural democracy (like Great Britain or the Netherlands)—that is to say, a state that accepts its diversity while serving its inhabitants. Instead, Israel insists on seeing itself as a Jewish state belonging to all the Jews in the world, even though they are no longer persecuted refugees but full citizens of the countries in which they choose to reside. The excuse for this grave violation of a basic principle of modern democracy, and for the preservation of an unbridled ethnocracy that grossly discriminates against certain of its citizens, rests on the active myth of an eternal nation that must ultimately forgather in its ancestral land.”

“While the Arab guerrillas were moving in, the Arab civilian population was moving out. —I.F. Stone reporting from Israel during 1948 War of Independence”

“People here talked about the pre-1967 borders.To tell you the truth this is astonishing.Whatever happened to the (Palestinian) cause we had before 1967?Were we lying to ourselves or to the world?Thousands of martyrs fell before 1967. What for?How can you say that Palestine was occupied only in 1967, and that (Israel) must return to the pre-1967 borders?Does Palestine consist of only the West Bank and the Gaza Strip?If so, it means that the Israelis did not occupy it in 1948.They left it to you for twenty years, so why didn't you establish a Palestinian state?Wasn't the Gaza strip part of Egypt, and the West Bank part of Jordan?The Jews left them to you for twenty years - from 1948 to 1967.If that is Palestine, why didn't you establish a state there?What is the justification for all the wars, the sacrifices, and the economic embargo on Israel before 1967?The Israelis can sue the Arabs now, and demand billions or even trillions in compensation for the damage caused them in 1948-1967.You Arabs admitted that the (Palestinian) cause began after 1967.So the Israelis can ask:"Why did you fight us before that?"They will demand Arab compensation for the so-called embargo on Israel, and for the economic damage caused to the Israelis.If the Israelis sue you, they will win.They will say:We suffered an injustice.We are like an innocent lamb surrounded by wolves.We've been saying this since 1948.Now the Arabs themselves have admitted that Palestine was occupied in 1967.Now they demand that Israel return to the pre-1967 borders, saying this will resolve the problem, and they will recognise Israel.Why didn't you recognise Israel before 1967?There is no God but Allah.By Allah, this is unacceptable.It doesn't make sense.You say that you will recognise Israel within the pre-1967 borders?!Maybe Israel will occupy more Arab land in, say, 2008, and a few years later, you will demand that it return to the pre-2008 borders, in exchange for recognizing Israel.This is exactly what's going on now.We gave negotiations a serious try.The Jews used to say:"Meet with us only once for direct negotiations, and we will resolve this issue."This is what they used to say in the 1950s and 1960s.They used to say: "Please, Arabs, sit down with us just one time, and our problem will be over."But you saw what happened.We met with them a thousand times - from the stables of (camp) David to Annapolis.We've been through all these negotiations - the stables of (camp) David, the Oslo negotiations of our brother Abu Mazen...He was, of course, the hero of Oslo - just like Sadat was the hero of the stables of (camp) David.When Algeria was fighting, donations and volunteers were coming in broad daylight - from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf.From here, from Syria, Dr. IIbrahim Makhous came with a group of volunteers, and fought alongside the Algerian Liberation Front. They were not considered terrorists, and no measures were taken against Syria.”