Saeb Erakat Quotes (86 Quotes)

Call it a fence, call it a wall, call it barrier -- whatever -- I don't care,

This court is calling upon nations not to help, not to talk, not to recognize any of the things Israel is creating by this wall,

It's a good sign to hear Mr. Peres speaking. I think he is the first Israeli official to apologize for this, and I hope that many Israeli officials will condemn this crime, which will not be justified.

We believe that Sharon ... is preparing the ground to escalate the attacks on the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority.

Israel is presenting 3,000 reasons why it is undermining the peace process, ... This will destroy the possibility of a Palestinian state and the two-state solution.

We will set as the loyal opposition in parliament.

This will have serious negative repercussions. We call upon the quartet the United States, European Union, Russia and United Nations to exert every possible effort in order to introduce the road map for peace.

I hope that Mr. Gold and Mr. Sharon will stop this broken record, assigning blame. Finger pointing will not save the lives of Israelis and Palestinians.

The basic ingredient for all the ails that we are witnessing there is the continuation of the Israeli occupation, and this must end, ... President Arafat is determined to exert every possible effort in order to ensure ... the Israeli occupation is finished and peace is made once and all.

One army is shooting and Palestinian children are dying. Cease-fire by whom It is the Israelis who are shooting.

And, once again, we reiterate, we don't condone the killings of Israeli civilians -- or Palestinian civilians for that matter.

It is obvious that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants to end his election campaign with more Palestinian blood and destruction. He's turning the Gaza strip into a pile of rubble in a deliberate attempt to destroy the Palestinian infrastructure and the Palestinian Authority.

The problems of what is happening today is the Israeli occupation, and it's time to start ending this occupation.

President Bush speaks of a Palestinian state (with) the June 1967 borders. Sharon is repeating what he said a year ago, the old stuff, the broken record of a long-term interim solution, 40 percent of the West Bank and 70 percent of the Gaza Strip. This will not fly.

We hold the Israeli government fully responsible. This will lead to more violence and bloodshed.

as a pretext to escalate his campaign against President Arafat and the Palestinian Authority.

This is a criminal act, a political assassination and a continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.

We call upon the U. N. Security Council to intervene directly in order to get an immediate cease-fire. This attack should not deter efforts to resume the peace process.

The stalemate in the negotiations. the non-implementation of the agreements, the policy of settlement expansion -- all joined together spells disaster,

We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. Every time there is movement toward resumption of negotiations we get these attacks by the Israelis.

Sharon and his army control the West Bank, and still these things happen,

If they want peace, they must know that what is happening in the Gaza Strip must happen in the West Bank and east Jerusalem,

The death amongst Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army is increasing at an alarming rate and this requires international intervention.

I am not going to raise any expectations at this stage. This is going to be a difficult process of rebuilding the trust and confidence between Palestinians and Israelis,

The decision to delay the declaration until after the Israeli elections will result in a political vacuum and a policy of inaction. The road map should have been declared so that the Israelis can choose between peace based on a two-step solution or no peace with the continuation of the occupation.

Our message in Washington will be clear, we want a mechanism that will get Israel to commit to the implementation of the agreement.

I urge the Israelis to understand that we need to continue talking. I also urge the good office of President Bush to exert every possible effort to resume the contacts.

These experts will work with our team as of tomorrow afternoon. President Arafat has assigned a team to follow up on all its aspects.

I don't think Sharon had intended by doing this tonight to give the peace process any chance at all. Nothing justifies the targeting and the bombardment of this residential area.

We have always condemned attacks targeting civilians, whether Palestinian or Israelis. Such attacks harm Palestinian interests. We call upon all Palestinians to abide by the cessation of violence.

Peace and security will not be derived through walls and through incursions and through assassination. It will only be attained through a meaningful peace process that will end the Israeli occupation and establish a Palestinian state next to the state of Israel.

We want the U. S. to respect and honor the agreement and release Abu Abbas.

will be the biggest blow to President Bush's two-state solution and will sabotage any idea of a road map.

I believe tomorrow there will be Israeli bombs, Israeli shelling, Israeli shootings, Israeli siege, Israeli settlements, Israeli assassinations, and then the spokespersons will come and say the Palestinians must stop the violence.

If Mr. Sharon is in the government, we all know the peace process will be over,

What Mr. Sharon is doing is saying to the whole world, 'I will win.' But ... he will score victory over what

Whose army and tanks are in the streets of every Palestinian quarter, every Palestinian city, every Palestinian town and village.

Arafat and the Palestinian Authority are exerting maximum effort in order to have the situation calm.

The fact is Israel is seizing this opportunity now and building this wall in order to confiscate land and to create policies on the ground and to have final negotiations by dictations rather than negotiations.

We hope that the Israeli government will take into account that the torpedoing of the peace process, of the collapse of the peace process, will really harm not only the Palestinians, but also the Israelis and it will harm the whole region,

This is clear evidence that they (Israel) are trying to destroy the election in general.

I think that this is a very clear cut message that the war being waged by Israel against the Palestinians is not a war against terror, as they call it, it's a war to maintain occupation, it's a war to sustain occupation, it's a war to beef up the settlement activities and to introduce more and physically impact on the ground as far as Jerusalem is concerned.

I must say that this could be preparing for something big, storming the church, destroying the church and then blaming it on Palestinians,

I hope that we will not give the impression that Palestinian leaders will start parachuting in the West Bank and Gaza from Washington,

The house was damaged. The extent of the damage is not yet known. It also is not known if anyone was injured inside the house.

But I want to make clear, if Israel wants peace, they know the address. It is Palestinian elected leadership -- we who will make peace. We who, with Israelis, work to break this vicious cycle of violence.

The least important issue today is my resignation. The real issue is the lives of Palestinians and Israelis, breaking the vicious cycle and reviving the peace process and putting it back on track.

The international community continues to deal with Israel even though it is a state above the law.

If he wants to see the future generations of Palestinians and Israelis living in peace, what are the forces doing in the West Bank and Gaza.

If Mr. Ross comes today and he leaves like he did the last two times, we'll be facing a disaster.