Ahmed Sheikh

Ahmed Sheikh is the Editor-in-Chief of Al Jazeera.

Quotes

• When the country is occupied and the people are being killed by the enemy, everyone must take action, even if he sacrifices himself in so doing.
  • On Palestinian suicide bombings.
  • Source: World Politics Watch, 7 December 2006.

• The U. S. is occupying a country and one has not only to expect, but also to accept that the people there resist.
  • On the Iraqi insurgency.
  • Source: World Politics Watch, 7 December 2006.

• The day when Israel was founded created the basis for our problems.
  • Source: World Politics Watch, 7 December 2006.

• Reporter: Do you mean to say that if Israel did not exist, there would suddenly be democracy in Egypt, that the schools in Morocco would be better, that the public clinics in Jordan would function better?

  Sheikh: I think so.

  • Source: World Politics Watch, 7 December 2006.