Israeli Settlements Quotes:

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

- Barack Obama

source: First Speech Before the United Nations General Assembly (64th Session), delivered 23 September 2009, New York, NY

topic: America, Israeli Settlements, Doe, Settlement

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

- Edward Said

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Years, Israeli Settlements, Example, Gaza, Settlers

Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them.

- Ariel Sharon

topic: Running, Moving, Terrorism, Zionism, Israeli Settlements

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

- Moshe Dayan

source: Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

topic: Country, Book, Names, Jewish National, Arab Israeli Conflict

The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

- Yitzhak Shamir

topic: Simple, Land, Essence, Zionism, Israeli Settlements

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

- Mahmoud Abbas

topic: Law, Issues, Government, Israeli Settlements

We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

- Jimmy Carter

source: United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

topic: Israel, Territory, Establishment, Israeli Settlements, Settlement

The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. ... Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

- Barack Obama

source: A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

topic: Israel, Two, Sides, Israeli Settlements, Peace And Security

They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

- Norman Finkelstein

topic: Knowledge, Israel, Battle, Israeli Settlements, Clusters

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

- Elliott Abrams

topic: Office, President, Middle East, Israeli Settlements