Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.

I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good

There wasn__ a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying ourcountry?

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.