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
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These weren't pre-emptive moves. If we wanted to do that, we would have taken steps on other measures dealing with security or dissolving the parliament.
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Rabin had a greater sense of the historical dimension. He was quite willing to take risks which Barak is not willing to take. Barak seems reluctant, begrudging, hesitant in terms of the peace process.
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We are still in the middle of the competition.
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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.
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Nobody wants him to resign and I don't think he will. He understands this is a question of the national interest.
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Sharon may be brutal, but so is Barak,
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I feel that Sharon is certainly a negative addition. He will sour the atmosphere. He will shift the whole terrain of the discourse to the extreme right.
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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.
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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.
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It's very clear that Mr. Barak's intentions all along have been to undermine the peace process, to evade it, to avoid it,
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The occupation is a source of violence that has to stop.
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It looks like we will have a bipolar reality.
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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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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,