Jordan is Palestine. The capital of Palestine is Amman. If Palestinian Arabs want to find their political expression, they will have to do it in Amman.

- Ariel Sharon

Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

- Anand Gopal

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

- Bashar al-Assad

None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.

- Bashar al-Assad

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

- Golda Meir

We need to separate the two peoples: Israeli Arabs are part and parcel of Israel, and Palestinians should be separate, as part of a two-state solution.

- Isaac Herzog

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.

- Leila Aboulela

Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

- Muammar al-Gaddafi

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

- Michael Ledeen

People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.

- Naftali Bennett

The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.

- Rabih Alameddine

The Arabs are victims. You have Shia Arabs, under Arabization under Saddam Hussein, who were forcibly moved up there... You have Kurds who were displaced by these Arabs that were moved up there by Saddam Hussein. Kurds have been displaced from Kirkuk for hundreds of years.

- Raymond T. Odierno

The fact is that we created 10 to 20,000 jobs for Arabs and Jews and Druze, which has made the Galilee a very positive place.

- Stef Wertheimer