Famous Quotes & Sayings

a shared educational space for high school students (from the Arab and Jewish, secular and religious populations) to recognize the 'other,' the one who is different and to examine the ways to grapple with multiculturalism in the city.

Jalal Talabani

As for us, we have always expressed our compassion for Arab countries in their testing times,

As an Israeli company, security is of the utmost importance to us and we require rigorous security measures from terminal operators in every country in which we operate, but especially in Arab countries. And we are very comfortable calling at DP World's Dubai ports.

Arab wants to run the football but Pope throws well, especially when they get in the spread offense. We've got to stop the run and we've got to be mentally ready.

Hans Blix

Saddam Hussein has certainly figured himself to be a sort of emperor of Mesopotamia and the leader of the Arab world.

Tariq Aziz

President Mubarak assumes a role for himself which both Washington and London have not given to him, ... In reality there is no noble, fair and intelligent person in Egypt, in the Arab homeland or the whole world sharing Mr. Mubarak in his deduction.

Psychologically, in the long term, this could have a very profound impact in the sense that Israelis are grieving for an Arab monarch or identifying with an Arab nation, something that's never happened before. I think, however, in the short term, if we judge it in political terms, it's not going to have much of an effect.

Elliott Abrams

Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.

The program has a duration of 52 minutes. It is too short a time to say everything I would like to say about the Arab countries. I like talking about the Arab people, and of their importance to the country.

Dubai has been trying to prove to the rest of the Arab world that there is life after oil, and that in fact it's a better life. The good news is there is room for a second and a third Dubai, just like there was room for a second Singapore in Asia.

Basmah bint Saud

On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

Mordechai Vanunu

We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab countries. What has already been exposed about the weapons Israel is holding can destroy the region and kill millions.

Even if there has been a delay, it is compatible with the efforts exerted to convince our Sunni Arab brothers.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Besides the already full dance card around the Arab world, now you've got this going on. It certainly ignites in people's minds that this situation is going to get worse before it gets better.

Asa Hutchinson

To put this in perspective, planes with pilots from the United Arab Emirates fly into this country every day. We don't ban them. Ship pilots from the UAE can steer ships into U.S. ports every day. We don't ban them, either.

We also discussed the part of Arab chambers in the development of trade and of investment in the Arab countries, especially in Saudi Arabia.

Martin Van Creveld

The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.

To reach final details about the establishment of the expected government and, at the same time, to continue our dialogue and discussion with Egyptian government in order to reconstruct our relationship with Egypt and with the Arab countries.

Khaled Meshaal

This of course is a big sum, and it is bigger than what Arab summits in Amman and Beirut had approved.

We just don't have the same relationship with the United Arab Emirates that we have with Britain. Do we really want to entrust security to a foreign government that had connections to some of the 9/11 hijackers?

Ismail Haniyeh

There is nothing defined, but all that we have heard from the Arab and Islamic states, officially and from the public, is reassuring.

Jalal Talabani

There is no real Arab empathy with the hundreds of women and children in Iraq killed on a daily basis at the hands of criminal terrorists who come from the Arab countries -- These criminals and executioners, who consider the Shiites -- who constitute the majority in Iraq -- to be infidels, and consider the Kurds - the second largest nationality in Iraq-to be traitors, are glorified by the Arab press.

We don't view ourselves as a settlement. We view ourselves as a continuation of the Jewish dream, but the Jewish dream has an Arab minority.

We are very concerned, ... We feel that the Arab world is being radicalized by the recent Israeli actions.

Peter Rodman

We saw three successful elections last year... In that success of those elections, you can see the gravitational pole working on the Sunni Arab population pulling them into the political process.

The timing was linked more to the trouble the U.S. administration is having with the domestic impact of high oil prices and the situation in Iraq rather than a deterioration of ties between Washington and the Arab World.

The United Arab Emirates today is a good friend and a good ally. After the events of 9/11, the government of the U.A.E. made a strategic decision to be on the right side of the issue and has cooperated with us very, very extensively on the war on terrorism and anti-proliferation.

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

We welcome very much the Arab League conclusions as an opportunity for peace.

We want to assure the Palestinian people that there are many charitable parties in Arab and Islamic countries who have expressed readiness to cooperation and offer support for ensuring the success of our democratic programs.

Jack Straw

The fact that some of these Arab states are willing to make this public is heartening, and it's a fair response to the Sharon government for the courage which the Sharon government has shown in moving out of Gaza and those four West Bank settlements,

Marilyn Monroe

What I really want to say is that what the world needs is a feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, blacks, Jews, Arabs - we're all brothers!

We have not seen any Arab envoys in Baghdad while foreign officials are coming here one after another, ... have no right to cast doubt on Iraq's (political) experience.