Former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter:                                           

 “Some Israelis believe they have the right to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land and try to justify the sustained subjugation and persecution of increasingly hopeless and aggravated Palestinians…   The actions of Israeli leaders have been in direct conflict with the official policies of the United States, the international community, and their own negotiated agreements…   In order to perpetuate the occupation, Israeli forces have deprived their unwilling subjects of basic human rights. No objective person could personally observe existing conditions in the West Bank and dispute these statements…  

“Because of powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned; voices from Jerusalem dominate in our media, and most American citizens are unaware of circumstances in the occupied territories…

“An opinion poll, published by the International Herald Tribune in October 2003, suggests that most world citizens believe that Israel is the top threat to world peace, ahead of North Korea, Iran, or Afghanistan…  The United States has used its U.N. Security Council veto more than forty times to block resolutions critical of Israel. Some of these vetoes have brought international discredit on the United States…

“Withdrawal to the 1967 border as specified in U.N. Resolution 242 and as promised in the Camp David Accords and the Oslo Agreement and prescribed in the Roadmap of the International Quartet is the most attractive option and the only one that can ultimately be acceptable as a basis for peace.”

A majority of Israelis favor withdrawing from Palestinian territory in exchange for peace, and recent polls show that 80 percent of Palestinians still want a two-state peace agreement with the Israelis.

From September 2000 until March 2006, about 4,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis were killed in the second intifada, and these numbers include many children: over 700 Palestinians and 100 Israelis.                                                                            

--------Jimmy Carter, "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid", chapter 17, Simon & Schuster

The Jews in Palestine (1938), by Mahatma Ghandi
Ghandi, My Non-Violence, Navajivan Publishing House, 1960

"Why should the Jew not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their homes where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?  Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French...What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct...

"They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs...if they will only descard the help of the British bayonet...They are co-sharers with the British in despoiling a people who have done no wrong to them...I am not defending the Arab excesses.  I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regarded as an unwarrantable encroachment upon their country.