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Hanan Ashrawi Biography

Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi (Arabic: حنان داوود خليل عشراوي‎; born October 8, 1946) is 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 former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Third Way party. She is the first woman elected to the Palestinian National Council.

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It's clear Israel has suspended the peace process, despite the so-called moderation of the Arab world, because it has no interest in peace.

Israel, Moderation, Peace, World

The priorities for the new Palestinian government is the economy. If Hamas cannot pay salaries when they form the government, there will be a collapse. People cannot afford to have that happen; there is nothing for people to fall back on. If people go hungry, there will be chaos - not just instability, but a breakdown. And there will be violence with a spillover effect. This is crucial to understand.

Afford, Economy, Fall, Nothing, People, Priorities

Palestinians were religious in many ways, but they did not subscribe to political Islam, historically.

Historically, Islam, Political, Religious

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.

Conscious, Equality, Numbers, Question, Rights

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.

Expects, Reality, Recognition, Relief, Sense, Thinking

For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily nationalistic, secular. Now, suddenly we are seeing the election of a religious party with extreme political ideologies and with a social agenda that seems inconsistent with the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people.

Century, Party, People, Primarily, Religious, Seeing

Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map.

Maps, Process, Road, Sequential, Sharon, Subverted

Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

Forces, Police, Power, Powers, Rights, Strong

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier. . . while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

Asked, Country, Israel, Occupier, War

Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.

Ego, Forthright, Honest, Politician, Women

We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.

Arms, Cities, Gun, Guns, House, Occupied

When you have a nation that is suffering collectively from a situation of injustice - of violence, of imprisonment and closure and checkpoints, from a sense of vulnerability and of hopelessness - attitudes are going to be affected by these measures.

Attitude, Nation, Suffering, Violence, Vulnerability

There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.

Children, Crisis, Men, People, Situation, Tremendous