Elias Chacour

"You.. if you are pro-Israel, on behalf of Palestinian children I ask you, give further friendship to Israel. They need your friendship. But don't interpret that friendship as antipathy against me, the Palestinian, who is paying the price for what others have done to my beloved Jewish brothers and sisters in the holocaust, in Auschwitz and elsewhere. And if you sympathize with the Palestinians - bless your hearts, - but if your sympathies are one-sided against my Jewish brothers and sisters, I must tell you - we do not need such friendship. We need rather a common friend. We do not need one more enemy, for God's sake!"

Excerpt, Commencement Address, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2001