“Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated for 10 years and accepted difficult and humiliating agreements, and in the end didn't get anything except authority over the people, and no authority over land, or sovereignty.” PeopleShouldYearsEndsFacesDifficultForgetLandHolyAuthorityAcceptedResistanceAgreementOccupationPalestinianSovereigntyIsraeliHumiliatingIsraeli Occupation Author:Marwan Barghouti
“Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites” StatesHolyEastRejectionRejectsPalestinianSiteSovereigntyIsraeliJordanJerusalem Author:Yasser Arafat
“Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.” Has BeensLandHolyIsraelObstaclesPrimariesAgreementPalestinianComprehensiveColonizationHoly Land Book:The Jimmy Carter Library Source: The Jimmy Carter Library
“When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa. Whether you want to say Israel practices apartheid is immaterial. They are doing things, given their history, you think, "Do you remember what happened to you?" Then they clobber you and say, "You are anti-Semitic."” ThinkingWantKindDoneRememberGivenPracticeHappenedLandHolySouthIsraelPalestinianSouth AfricaApartheidBeing DoneAnti SemiticHoly LandCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“I asked myself what Palestinians would do if Israel disappeared-if everything not only went back to the way it was before 1948 but if all the Jewish people abandoned the Holy Land and were scattered again. And for the first time, I knew the answer. We would still fight. Over nothing. Over a girl without a head scarf. Over who was toughest and most important. Over who would make the rules and who would get the best seat.” PeopleIfsWayFirstsStillsImportantGirlFightingAnswersLandHolyFirst TimeIsraelSeatsAbandonedPalestinianScarvesHoly Land Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef
“We feel sorrow and pain over the death of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd. We have known this man for a long time... he showed support and commitment to the Palestinian revolution and to Fatah since the 1960s.” MenFeelsLongTwoPainKnownSupportRevolutionKingsSorrowHolyLong TimeCommitmentPalestinian1960sMosquesCustodians Author:Mahmoud Abbas
“God looks at the Middle East, looks at Palestine. When you go to the Holy Land and see what's being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it's the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa.” LooksKindDoneLandMiddleHolySouthEastMiddle EastPalestinianSouth AfricaPalestineBeing DoneHoly LandCheckpoints Author:Desmond Tutu
“Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem is the most sensitive of all the issues that need to be addressed in order to achieve a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. But Donald Trump determined an important aspect of the United States' position towards Jerusalem before any agreement. Most of the rest of the world feels that it ought not to be dealt with first, that it ought not to be dealt with separately, and that it ought not to be dealt with unilaterally.” WorldImportantChristianAchieveHolyJewDeterminedSensitivePalestinian Author:Richard N. Haass
“So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?” MeanWarFoundForceJusticeEffortHugeHolyCourtPatientCongressSupremeCompromiseEmpoweringDepartmentPalestinianSecularDocumentsOffenseSupreme CourtFoundingFrustratingFlexibleIsraeliFinancingPrincipledHoly War Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.” KnowsGivingWellsLandTaughtHolyLessonsIsraelPalestinianSyriaJordanLebanonHoly Land Author:Jimmy Carter