Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawiis a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar. She was a protégée and later colleague and close friend of Edward Said. Ashrawi was an important leader during the First Intifada, served as the official spokesperson for the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East peace process, and has been elected numerous times to the Palestinian Legislative Council. Ashrawi is a member of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Third Way party. She is the first woman elected to the Palestinian...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 October 1946
national nobody question resign wants
Nobody wants him to resign and I don't think he will. He understands this is a question of the national interest.
act orders themselves
They don't take orders from Arafat. They think for themselves and act for themselves.
attempting closer looking people policy seems sharon usual utmost wrong
It seems to me as usual they are looking at the wrong address. They should look closer at home. I don't think the Sharon policy of attempting to besiege a whole people ... is a policy of utmost responsibility.
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If Abu Mazen wins, I'm afraid there will be payback time. Lots of people will expect to see him deliver different things on different fronts to different addresses.
behave borrowed cannot conflict everybody expected paradigm peace simplistic solutions
We cannot superimpose on any conflict very simple, borrowed and ready-made solutions ... The Americans constructed a simplistic paradigm for our peace process. And they expected everybody to think like Americans, to behave like Americans.
allow armed elections electoral fair free group groups handful holding threaten
We can't allow a group or a handful of armed groups or militias to threaten the holding of elections in a fair and free environment. We can't allow them to hijack the electoral process.
middle
We are still in the middle of the competition.
interested
We are not interested in a show of negotiations without substance.
concession generally interested occupying power symbolic
We are not interested in a symbolic state, and statehood generally is not a concession from an occupying power.
accepting beat either entirely exposes intentions peace policy process pursue submission
This really exposes Barak's real intentions when it comes to peacemaking, that either (Israelis) beat (the Palestinians) into submission in accepting what (Israelis) want, or (Israel) will suspend the peace process and ... pursue a policy which is entirely anti-peace,
accepted clock helpful initiative peace process ticking trying willing
We accepted the (U.S.) initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast.
bombed children homes totally
We're being shelled and bombed and assassinated and killed. Our homes are being destroyed, our children traumatized. Our livelihoods, our institutions, our infrastructure totally demolished.
inspirational rely-upon suffering
We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.
strong security-systems rights
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers