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Palestine is Arab and must be liberated from the river to the sea and all the Zionists who emigrated to the land of Palestine must leave. — Saddam Hussein

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding. — Rick Larsen

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth. — Jane Fonda

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape. — Ban Ki-moon

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer — Naguib Mahfouz

You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people. — Mohja Kahf

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence. — Yitzhak Rabin

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth. — Alia Mamdouh

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief. — Honore De Balzac

I'm of Arab background. — Helen Thomas

The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward. — Mohammed Mahdi Akef

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. — John Bolton

Arab civilization has collapsed. It won't recover in my lifetime. — Hisham Melhem

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. — Moshe Dayan

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions. — Ahmed Ben Bella

Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in. — Richard Engel

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. — Zaha Hadid

Sexual rights are not only a basic element of human rights but should have an integral part in moves towards Arab reform ... — Brian Whitaker

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries. — Elliott Abrams

We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population. — David Ben-Gurion

In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so. — Rabih Alameddine

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness. — Moshe Dayan

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. — Paul Wolfowitz

In the Arab world, every work of art has a tiny flaw, so that it doesn't sacrilegiously compete with the perfection of God. — Ken Follett

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans. — Leila Aboulela

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation. — Shereen El Feki

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West. — Richard Dawkins

You will triumph, O Iraqis, and with you the sons of your Arab nation — Saddam Hussein

Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins. — Andrew Gilligan

The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people. — Albert Einstein

I'm an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor. — Tahar Rahim

I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, "What's the definition of a moderate Arab?" "I don't know." "A guy who ran out of ammunition. — Nelson DeMille

It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. — George W. Bush

castigate Middle East experts for not anticipating the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011. — Yuval Noah Harari

Subjugate the Arab world. Dr. Weizmann and the Zionists felt — Leon Uris

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed. — Zubin Mehta

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it. — Ahmet Davutoglu

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois, — Sayed Kashua

Why doesn't Ezekiel include the Arab states that share common borders with Israel among the Gog of Magog invaders? — Bill Salus

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror. — Omar Bongo

Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic. — Kola Boof

Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph. — Saddam Hussein

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. — William Odom

The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world. — Walid Jumblatt

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles. — Alexander Siddig

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian. — Karl Lagerfeld

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. — Ismail Haniyeh

Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries. — Kevin Keegan

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present. — Davis Bunn

Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight. — Gamal Abdel Nasser

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine. — Ismail Haniyeh

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world. — Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular. — Maajid Nawaz

Discipline leads us to desire, which matures into delight. — Missionaries Who Love The Arab World

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression. — Wadah Khanfar

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power. — Mohammed Morsi

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer ... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. — Hunter S. Thompson

As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends. — Najib Razak

You're advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water. — Banksy

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing. — Golda Meir

He walked out without his money.
The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace. — Benjamin Netanyahu

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood. — Susan Abulhawa

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule. — Peter Mansfield

She's studying the Existentialists this month. Asked for a study day last week to kill an Arab on the beach. — Christopher Moore

The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world. — Fouad Ajami

Talk to women who've ever dated an Arab man. The results are not good, — Bill Maher

For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli. — John Conyers

Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. — Carroll Quigley

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam. — Tariq Ramadan

Offering democracy to an Arab is like bringing a horse to a steakhouse. — Jeff Cooper

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? — Andy Zaltzman

There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast. — Martin McGuinness

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates. — Francine Busby

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world. — Noam Chomsky

You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic, — Moshe Feiglin

These months drive us to listen within. — Charol Messenger

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab affairs. — Stephen Kinzer

Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn. — Scott Anderson

Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that. — Jehane Noujaim

The Arab world translates about 330 books annually, one-fifth of the number that Greece translates. — Anonymous

The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family. — Nawal El Saadawi

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we. — Naomi Klein

Enough of blood and tears. Enough! — Yitzhak Rabin

If there must be a moon, let it be high,
a high moon made in Baghdad, neither Arab, nor Persian,
nor claimed by the goddesses all around us. — Mahmoud Darwish

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans. — Jack Nicholson

Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

What I see in the Arab world, in Egypt, everywhere is increasing radicalization. — Mohamed ElBaradei

A thick headcloth forms a good protection against the sun, and if you wear a hat your best Arab friends will be ashamed of you in public. — T.E. Lawrence

Jordan has a very important part in any Arab-Israeli peace process. — King Hussein

Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?' — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President. — Ann Coulter