Arabs Quotes

You may say that the Iraqis are overcompensating for Saddam's deceptive pro-Arab slogans. This does not justify what is happening, but might explain it. Saddam used to give the Arabs privileges in Iraq while depriving the Iraqis of similar privileges. There is a reaction in the street and it should be contained. We cannot turn our backs on our Arab milieu. - Ahmed Chalabi

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture. - Tony Shalhoub

With Versailles (the treaty) in 1919, we viewed the Arabs as largely tribal, bedouin, backward. They couldn't govern themselves... the French, British, provided the stable government that allowed commercial transactions.... As a consequence of our lack of confidence in them, we've communicated that democracy is a vital, difficult option for everyone but them. - Bob Kerrey

Why did the issue only surface with an Arab country? Here is a perfect example of clear discrimination against Arabs and Muslims. - Osama Siblani

Who knows what's going to go on there if the Arabs feel pressed? - Mike Fitzpatrick

When the Jewish state is established - it is very possible that the result will be transfer of Arabs. - Moshe Sharett

Whatever, Russia will score in the eyes of Arabs because it has shown it is not a Western puppet. The West will also have nothing to complain about because Russia played by the rules. - Mikhail Delyagin

What we have to ask is that Arab leaders and Arabs themselves, who see the importance of having good relations with Europe and the Western world, come out and speak clearly about the importance of not letting the situation deteriorate to the point that the only one who suffers is moderate Islam. - Christina Gallach