We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967. Mahmoud Abbas Read Quote
The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence and rejection and condemning of terrorism in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel. Mahmoud Abbas Read Quote
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. Mahmoud Abbas Read Quote
We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations. Mahmoud Abbas Read Quote
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another. Mahmoud Abbas Read Quote
I can certainly put myself in Israel’s shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders. Mahmoud Abbas Read Quote
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. Mahmoud Abbas Read Quote
It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop. Mahmoud Abbas Read Quote
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. Mahmoud Abbas Read Quote
