“Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.” PeopleWantEndsSimpleImpossibleMiddleEastOccupationMiddle EastSovereigntySimple ThingsProspectsMoscow Author:Khaled Mashal
“We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.” EndsOccupationAggressionRemoval Author:Khaled Mashal
“Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.” ImportantPlayRolesRightsAchieveRussiaOccupationAggressionPalestinian Author:Khaled Mashal
“This should be a true peace, which leads to the end of occupation and aggression, to the return of refugees to their homes, to the destruction of the dividing wall, and the establishment of a political status for East Jerusalem.” ShouldEndsHomePoliticalWallReturnDestructionEastOccupationEstablishmentAggressionRefugeeJerusalemDividingTrue Peace Author:Khaled Mashal
“The international community must make pressure on Israel to recognize our right to get freedom, to fight against occupation, to have real peace, legitimacy on our ground. If the international community obliged Israel to do that, then they can come to us and ask us to take our step.” IfsRealFightingAsksCommunityStepsPressureInternationalIsraelOccupationObligedInternational CommunityLegitimacy Author:Khaled Mashal
“The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.” PeopleCommunityResponsibilityMoralInternationalOccupationInternational CommunityMoral Responsibility Author:Khaled Mashal
“So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.” PeopleLongHomePoliticalLandArmsActivityResistanceOccupationPalestinianFactionsArranging Author:Khaled Mashal
“It is Israel that must recognize Palestine's rights. We cannot believe in empty statements, twiddle our thumbs and watch our children getting killed. Israel must end occupation and aggression, and our actions won't take much longer after that.” BelieveChildrenEndsActionWatchesRightsEmptyOur ChildrenIsraelStatementsOccupationAggressionPalestineOur ActionsThumbs Author:Khaled Mashal
“There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.” ForceSecurityIsraelResistanceRecognitionOccupationStrategicColonization Author:Khaled Mashal
“So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.” LongStatesUnitedMistakeUnited StatesFirePolicyTerrorismOilOccupationForeign PolicyPalestineIsraeliPouringBiasedIsraeli Occupation Author:Khaled Mashal
“The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.” PeopleWorldShouldStatesIndependentIsraelCommitOccupationTerritoryAggressionPalestinian Author:Khaled Mashal
“I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.” WayWantShouldStatesSpeakCommunityUnitedUnited StatesInternationalOccupationTerritoryAggressionPalestinianIsraeliInternational CommunityIsraeli Occupation Author:Khaled Mashal
“There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.” LongOccupationStabilityAggression Author:Khaled Mashal
“We are living like brothers, Christians and Muslims. Also the Jews lived in peace with us before the occupation began.” ChristianBrotherJewOccupation Author:Khaled Mashal
“Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.” LongMatterCostNo Matter WhatIsraelResistanceRecognitionOccupationAggression Author:Khaled Mashal
“We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.” StillsCountryFormWillingArmyIndependentOccupationIndependent Country Author:Khaled Mashal
“We want to have peace in the region, but peace will not be achieved before the removal of the occupation.” WantRegionsOccupationRemoval Author:Khaled Mashal