Mahmoud Abbas Quotes (193 Quotes)


    I don't want to talk about whether firing these rockets is important or not, but I wanted to talk about the destructive consequences. No one of us could forget last week's tragedy when a father and his son were killed by a rocket.

    Why assume that there will be crisis Let us resort to dialogue. Everything comes through dialogue.

    The most important message is our readiness, our full readiness to work for the internal security, ... We have deployed forces and we have taken a final decision on uniting the security apparatus, and we will continue applying this decision.

    We are coming into a new phase. In this phase, we are calling for the international community to help us return to the negotiating table with the Israelis, conclude the peace process and implement it.

    We are watching with great worry at what might happen if he is harmed.


    I am ready to meet him as soon as possible and I hope to sit round the negotiating table immediately.

    first step towards the liberation of the West Bank and Jerusalem.

    What happened is an ugly crime that cannot be forgiven, and an insult for the Palestinian people.

    We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

    This assassination will not undermine our efforts to impose law and public order.

    The constitution gives me clear and definite authority to remove a government from power, but I don't want to use this authority. Everyone should know that by law this power is in my hands.

    No doubt what happens to Sharon affects Israel first, but it will not affect our elections.

    For that, we are in contact with the Israeli side to start direct negotiations with the government that will soon be formed.


    The two leaders will not meet today because negotiators are still engaged in talks to prepare for the meeting, ... There will be another meeting tonight to try to finalize a joint document.

    We are all in agreement that Jerusalem has to be included in the election. And if it is not included, all the factions agree that there will be no elections.

    What is happening is chaos and irresponsible. People are saying this is a test for a Palestinian state. If we continue on this path these people will say we don't deserve one.

    We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we would pick up the fruits of our struggle and our people's sacrifice.

    The information I received from Jordan's prime minister and intelligence chief is dangerous and surprising at the same time.

    We affirm that we want to live in peace, security and stability next to the state of Israel.

    From today we will not allow armed chaos, the taking of the law into individual hands, or attacks on public property.

    We are ready. I am the head of the Authority. I have already recognized Israel, and I am against terrorism.

    This place was a taboo for us for the past 38 years, and now we are standing here.

    I was and I am working on planting the culture of peace among the Palestinian people in order to pave the way for a smooth Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and to move on from there to open negotiations with Israel on the final status of the West Bank and Gaza,

    I have a moral and religious obligation. So I will get you a Palestinian state.'


    It is a requirement to ensure that the withdrawal will take place in a civilized manner so that we can show the world we deserve our freedom and independence.

    An international conference should be summoned immediately, in which direct negotiations take place, on the basis of international UN resolutions and signed agreements.

    We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

    The democratic process is taking place, and is in good shape. If this proves anything, it proves that the Palestinians are up to participating in a democracy.

    We have taken active steps in imposing the rule of law and public order and ban armed demonstrations,

    Today we are getting part of the payoff, of your sacrifice, by seeing the last settlers leaving Gaza, ... The credit for the evacuation is for you and for the martyrs who sacrificed themselves and gave their lives for the homeland.

    There will be no military solution to this conflict,

    There is a struggle under way for the hearts and minds of the Palestinian people between the moderates and the fundamentalists,

    If the settlement activities in Palestinian land and construction of the so-called separation wall on confiscated Palestinian land continue, we might soon find ourselves at a situation where the foundation of peace, a free Palestine state living side by side in peace and security in Israel, is a factual impossibility.

    spending time and energies to move the process forward.

    The bullets that hit your bodies and the wounds that are still in your bodies are signs of honor,

    Ending this deterioration requires the commitment of all parties to end violence and cease fire and begin serious implementation of the road map,

    Israel has created obstacles in the face of a full and unconditional return to the negotiating table and acted as if Israel can resolve the Middle East conflict unilaterally,

    We, as a presidency and a government, will continue our commitment to the negotiation process as the sole political, pragmatic and strategic choice through which we reap the fruit of our struggle and sacrifices over the long decades.

    As we depend on the negotiation process as a political choice, we should continue to develop other forms of peaceful popular struggle.

    This action is foreign to the traditions of the Palestinian people. We will not allow anyone to damage brotherly relations between Palestine and Egypt.

    We have one law for everyone and no one is above the law. We are not going to tolerate chaos after today.

    We have to understand that we must not give Israel the excuse to hit back.

    No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

    Tomorrow they will start leaving part of the West Bank. It's a beginning of the full withdrawal from all the settlements. We will not close our eyes. We will not rest until they leave from all our land.

    strategic decision to condemn violence and terrorism.

    We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

    We hope that the outcome of this summit will be positive so that we can build on it and so that there will be other meetings between us and the Israeli prime minister,

    This crime is a clear illustration of the danger posed by Jewish settlers to our people, and we want to know why the Israeli government allows them to be armed and commit crime after crime.


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