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.
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.
interested
We are not interested in a show of negotiations without substance.
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
maps process sharon
Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map,
reality looks
It looks like we will have a bi-polar reality
war jerusalem recognition
You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.
strong israel leader
Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. Now it is clear that Israel needs a leadership that proceeds strongly toward peace, or else the extremist right will hijack the situation.
mean israel want
We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.