“I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after dec...” — Mahmoud Abbas Quote

“I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.”

“We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.”

“We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.”

“Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.”

“India has always stood with Africa on the freedom struggle against colonial powers.”

“There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.”