Mahmoud Abbas Security Quotations

There is a difficult mission ahead -- to build our state, to achieve security for our people, to provide a good life for our people, to give our prisoners freedom, our fugitives a life in dignity, to reach our goal of an independent state,

Peace and security cannot be guaranteed by the construction of walls, by the erection of checkpoints and the confiscation of land, but rather by the recognition of rights.

We recognize that Palestinians need help in consolidating security forces and training security forces that would defeat the terrorists that would like to stop the march of freedom.

The most important message is our readiness, our full readiness to work for the internal security, ... We have deployed forces and we have taken a final decision on uniting the security apparatus, and we will continue applying this decision.

fire all directors of the security services who failed to fulfill their duties.

This is sabotage and aimed at sabotaging the elections, not only the elections, but also the security of Palestinians. The culprits must be punished.

The chaos and security lapses create fertile ground for our enemies to hold back our people as they struggle for freedom and independence.

All the officers, soldiers and security personnel are asked not to abide by these decisions and to consider them null and void.