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
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.
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.
interested
We are not interested in a show of negotiations without substance.
act orders themselves
They don't take orders from Arafat. They think for themselves and act for themselves.
giving settlers
Barak is going to the other extreme, he is giving the settlers too much influence, too much power.
cynical extremely volatile
a very cynical and willful manipulation of an extremely volatile situation.
bottom far line
This is the bottom line as far as all Palestinians are concerned.
head
I think they will be able to see him because he is head of state.
commitment genuine high honesty human man people
He was a genuine man of the people, and he was characterized by his high sense of values, his honesty, his integrity, his unwavering commitment to his people and human dimension.
action cooked corrupt excuse freeze grasp instead onto sit taking throw
But instead of taking action, he cooked up a deal: freeze everything, don't throw out the corrupt officials, sit and do nothing, grasp onto the excuse of the elections.
centrist party represents unilateral
I don't see Sharon's new party as a centrist party. It's a party that represents a unilateral approach,
numbers rights conscious
It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of women's rights ... There will also be women who are not committed to equality.
reality thinking relief
Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.