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— Alain de Botton"The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil."
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs.
— David Ben-Gurion
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