Intifada Palestine

by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
“President Obama…admonished Arab governments to embrace democracy” while he “conspicuously failed to demand the same rights to self-determination for Palestinians–despite the occupation of their territory by the region’s strongest military power.”

Dr. Elias Akleh
I, too, have a dream shared by many other Palestinians, Arabs, and people from other nations, that Jews, Christians, and Muslims can live peacefully and harmoniously in a free democratic Palestinian state under one constitution that guarantees equality to all citizens, who could then join hands and also sing “Free at lat”.

Russia Today
Israel is the main reason why the peace process in the Middle East failed, insists Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Saad Al-Hariri.

Moubayad
In The Godfather, Marlon Brando coined the phrase “make them an offer they cannot refuse”. Netanyahu is putting a new twist on the Hollywood phrase, making it “an offer they cannot but refuse”. No nation in the world is recognised by another nation — certainly not with all the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict — as anything in particular. In fact, recognising Israel as a Jewish state would make non-Jewish residents of Israel (one million Palestinians) second class citizens or non-entities.

Firas Al-Atraqchi
Israel is mighty and under no pressure whatsoever to concede anything to the Palestinians. This becomes doubly more dangerous when one considers that a super right-wing government which has entertained the idea of expelling Palestinians to Jordan, or having Palestinian-Israelis swear an oath of allegiance to the “Jewish State”, sits in power in Tel Aviv.