Mohammed Dahlan Quotes (26 Quotes)

All the options are open, ... Personally, I am not thinking of resigning at all, because it means that I will be running away ... but for sure, the Cabinet might consider taking such a step.

They think that if they continue with their unilateral steps, the Palestinian Authority will surrender and accept the status quo. This is not true.

I think that the agreement will satisfy the majority of the Palestinian people, ... At least for now, travelers are not going to see any more Israelis. No Israeli is going to control their lives.

The prisoners issue will either push the peace process into bigger and better hopes or it will take us back many years,

All that Israel achieved in the past two-and-a-half years is that it destroyed all the Palestinian security apparatus infrastructure, and I am paying the price of that now,

Yasser Arafat is still committed to the peace process, ... He has still a tiny, a very tiny hope for the peace process.

There will be no room for the voices of reason. There will be paralysis in the political process for the next 10 years.

I believe that Israel should benefit from this cease-fire and should grab this opportunity and should strengthen the cease-fire, because if it didn't, this means we will go back to the previous cycle of violence -- attack and counterattack, each side revenging its dead.

From day one, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government put obstacles in front of us and has been trying to destroy the political future of this Cabinet, ... The Israeli government is interested in keeping President Arafat weak and Mahmoud Abbas even weaker.

It is only the first step to more liberation ... tomorrow we liberate all of Palestine,

The Future list is no more and the movement has a single list.

By reserving for itself the ability to invade the Gaza Strip and by maintaining control over Palestinian air space, territorial waters, and most importantly its borders, Israel will continue its military rule over the Palestinians, ... Israel is deluding itself if it believes that its occupation over the Gaza Strip has ended.

If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques,

We want to protect what we achieved at Camp David, we don't want to waste those discussions.

What took place last night is a national scandal. This is unfortunately not the first time that Palestinian victims are being killed. ... We should put an end to this by any means, by force, or by pursuing and convincing.

We want to continue implementing the agreement over borders and movement between Gaza and the West Bank, and we hope these measures will be completed by the date on which we agreed, December 15.

The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

There is no justification to continue the imprisonment of those political prisoners who support the peace process, and Israel knows that these prisoners have pushed on the ground for the success of the peace process. Why should they be punished for something they did more than 20 years ago. There are prisoners that have spent 28 years in jail. Now they are old and ill. There is no justification to keep them held in prison.

So far we are conducting our work through dialogue. We are trying to convince the armed men to stop their attacks by talking to them. I am trying to do two tasks at the same time to fulfill my security commitments in the road map and at the same time to rebuild the interior ministry in an ideal manner, and I am sure I will succeed unless Israel wants something else.

It's time for you to discover the suffering of being in government.

This era is the era of unity, and the era that will end any competition or disagreement.

The Palestinian Authority is under siege, imprisoned and ridiculed.

Despite Israeli claims to the contrary, the Gaza Strip will remain occupied Palestinian territory under international law.

This is an operational problem that has to be solved, ... and an agreement should be reached between President Arafat and the prime minister, because this would be beneficial to the Palestinian Authority and to the peace process.

By reserving itself the ability to invade the Gaza Strip and by maintaining control over Palestinian airspace, territorial waters and most importantly its borders, Israel will continue its military rule over Palestinians,

I believe that the cease-fire is fragile, even though the dialogue between the Palestinian political factions lasted for more than two months and it is the first time in nearly 40 years that all the Palestinian factions -- Islamists, secular and nationalists -- agree on, come to a consensus on one issue and that was the cease-fire,