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Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.

— Elliott Abrams

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

— Elliott Abrams

Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Arab terror groups are committed to the destruction of Israel, a position supported by millions in the Muslim world.

— Mike Gallagher

The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.

— Naftali Bennett

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

— Jack Schwartz

Arafat is the greatest instigator of terror.

— Ehud Olmert

Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?

— Yair Lapid

Abbas is on his way to becoming a professor of terrorism. After denying the Holocaust in his doctoral thesis, he now claims that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.

— Danny Danon

In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.

— Noam Chomsky

✗Opposing Perspectives

Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it.

— Peter T. King

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.

— Alan Dershowitz