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| Palestine Air Travel Information
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On the early of Sep. 1994, President Yasser Arafat
issued a Presidential Decree No. 87/94 to establish
the Palestinian Civil Aviation Authority and appointed
Mr. Fayez Zedan as the chairman. Mr. Zedan was assigned
to initiate the organizational infrastructure for aviation
in Palestine including the formation of the structural
and executive administrations of the the Aviation Authority,
building airports, establishing and operating the Palestinian
Airline Company.
The recently opened Gaza Airport offers
scheduled flights to nearby countries. Direct air travel
is also available through Lod Airport. Jordan
and Egypt have open borders with palestine. By sea,
Palestine can only be reached through ferries from Haifa,
Israel. There are regular ferries to/from Haifia, Greece,
Cyprus, and Egypt.
Quotations
"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts." President Ronald
Reagan. Quoted in: Observer (London, 27 Feb. 1983).
"My generation, dear Ron, swore on the Altar of God that whoever proclaims the
intent of destroying the Jewish state or the Jewish people, or both, seals his
fate." — Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, prime minister. Letter to Reagan.
Quoted in: Observer (London, 2 Jan. 1983).
"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon-no
alternative." — Golda Meir, Israeli politician, prime minister. Life (New York,
3 Oct. 1969).
"Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath." —
Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli politician, prime minister. Quoted in: Daily Telegraph
(London, 25 Jan. 1989).
"Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the
explosive that blows it apart." — Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader. Quoted in:
Time (New York, 11 Nov. 1974).
"We are not asking for the moon." — Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader. Quoted
in: Observer (London, 7 Feb. 1982).
"Should there be maniacs who raise the idea, they will encounter an iron fist
which will leave no trace of such attempts." — Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli
politician, prime minister. Quoted in: Times (London, 11 Aug. 1988), on
advocates of Palestinian self-government.
"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will
give him ten bullets in the chest." — Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader. Quoted
in: Daily Telegraph (London, 19 Jan. 1989), on the Intifada.
"We, the soldiers who have returned from battles stained with blood; we who have
seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes; we who have attended
their funerals and cannot look in the eyes of their parents; we who have come
from a land where parents bury their children; we who have fought against you,
the Palestinians-we say to you today, in a loud and a clear voice: enough of
blood and tears. Enough." — Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister. Speech at the
White House, September 13, 1993, after signing the Israeli-Palestinian
Declaration of Principles.
"Not only [are] our states . . . making peace with each other,. . . you and I,
your Majesty, are making peace here, our own peace, the peace of soldiers and
the peace of friends." — Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister. New York Times,
(July 27, 1994), after signing a peace declaration with Jordan's King Hussein. -
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