“Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.” MayMeanLawLandMilitaryInternationalRestaurantsIslamicTargetOccupationPalestinianPalestineIsraeliInternational LawDisco Author:Enver Masud
“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
“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
“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
“Today the Israeli government continues seizures of Palestinian land for settlements, military incursions into surrounding countries and denial of the right of Palestinians expelled by terror to return. Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister, is a war criminal who should be in prison, not in office. Israel's own Kahan commission found that Sharon shared responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacres.” ShouldWarCountryGovernmentTodayFoundResponsibilityLandMilitaryReturnOfficePrisonTerrorIsraelCriminalsDenialMinistersPrimePalestinianPrime MinisterIsraeliSettlementMassacresArielSeizuresSharonShared Responsibility Author:Ken Livingstone
“Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.” WarSeaLandRevolutionConsequenceConcernConcernedRiversAimPalestinianEntityLiberatingJuneJordanZionistEliminatingUprootingMediterranean Sea Author:Yasser Arafat
“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 don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"” WantTryingWellsPersonsSaidRememberSpeakJusticeHappenedLandPleaseTreatsAliensReasonablePalestinianSettlementDiplomaticWhere You ComeYahwehJewish Friends Author:Desmond Tutu
“The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.” PeopleProblemLandRemainsOccupationPalestinianContinuingAssaultIsraeliIsraeli Occupation Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or a state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is reality but I don’t deal with it from the point of view of recognizing or admitting it.” StatesRealityTodaySpeakTermDealsLandDemandIsraelBordersPalestinianEntityAdmitting Author:Khaled Mashal
“The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians” FightingRightsLandStonesKillingInnocentBombsOverwhelmingPalestinianBulletsCiviliansCatapults Author:Bernard Membe
“We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.” PeopleStatesTodayLandHistoricalIsraelRepeatsEstablishmentInchesPalestinianRecognizingPalestineLiberated Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on Palestinians' land instead. Moreover, Israel's rulers oppose any development-such as an Iranian-U.S. detente-that could diminish Israel's U.S.-financed hegemony in the region. War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his hawkish American allies-the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq war and ISIS-must be repudiated.” PeopleWarReasonWould BeLandBuildingDevelopmentPressureIraqIsraelRegionsPushingIranAlliesRulersPalestinianCatastropheDiminishIsisIraq WarSettlementIranianHegemonyDetente Author:Sheldon Richman
“We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.” WarGoalPlansLandProgramShipsWarriorPalestinianWar Plans Author:Abu Abbas
“This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and the Palestinian people, a struggle that centers on Palestinian land, history, civilization, culture and identityAs for your judicial apparatus, which is where this court comes from: it is one of the instruments of the occupation whose function is to give the cover of legal legitimacy to the crimes of the occupation, in addition to consecrating its systems and allowing the imposition of these systems on our people through force.” PeopleGivingTodayCultureForceProcessStruggleLandCrimeMovementCivilizationFunctionInstrumentsCourtHistoricalTrialsOccupationAllowingPalestinianPalestineJudicialZionistLegitimacyImposition Author:Ahmad Sa'adat
“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
“The people who live on the land - Israelis and Palestinians - have a right to live in security and peace.” PeopleLandSecurityPalestinian Author:Noam Chomsky
“The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but that they also recognize Israel's abstract right to exist, a concept that has no place in international law or diplomacy, and a right claimed by no one. In effect, the US and Israel are demanding that Palestinians . . . formally accept the legitimacy of their expulsion from their own land. They cannot be expected to accept that, just as Mexico does not grant the US the right to exist on half of Mexico's territory, gained by conquest.” DoeStatesLawHalfAcceptingRightsLandEffectsConceptsInternationalIsraelExpectedAbstractGrantsTerritoryMexicoPalestinianConquestDiplomacyLegitimacyInternational LawExpulsion Author:Noam Chomsky
“The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.” GoalActingSupportIssuesGroupsLandArmsAuthorityUltimateAffairTerroristVarietyBridgesInternalsIranPalestinianBehaviourSyriaInterferenceUltimate GoalHezbollahInternal AffairsTerrorist GroupsLebanese Author:Elliott Abrams
“Saudi Arabia is the most fragile of all Arab states, though we're not saying so. And, unfortunately, bin Laden puts his finger on the other longstanding injustices in the Arab world: the continued occupation of Palestinian land by the Israelis; the enormous, constant Arab anger with the tens of thousands of Iraqi children who are dying under sanctions; the feelings of humiliation of millions of Arabs living under petty dictators, almost all of whom are propped up by the West.” WorldChildrenStatesFeelingsMillionsLandDyingConstantWestFingersInjusticeEnormousOccupationFragilePalestinianDictatorHumiliationPettyBin LadenSanctionsArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisArab World Author:Robert Fisk
“I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.” MenEnjoyRightsWrittenLandConditionsImmigrantsPalestinianExileDeprivedLegal Rights Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun
“The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country - very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people.” PeopleTwoCountryIndividualLandTragedySizeJewPalestinianJerseyIsraeliHomelandNew JerseySmall Countries Author:Amos Oz
“I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon and to Syria.” ThinkingLongLandIsraelPalestinianSyriaLebanon Author:Jimmy Carter
“In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation of occupation or expulsion, that there is a military order that controls the boundaries of what would be a sovereign Palestinian state, that the land on which that state is now thinkable has been radically diminished by an ongoing practice of land confiscation and appropriation.” Has BeensStatesWould BeOrderLostSituationPracticeLandMilitaryBoundariesResistanceOccupationPalestinianSovereignOngoingIsraeliAppropriationExpulsionThinkable Author:Judith Butler
“Some Israeli politicians have proposed the transfer of Palestinians out of what is currently called Israel, either into the occupied territories, into Jordan or out into other Arab lands, with the idea that there would be no intermixing of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis or Palestinian and Jewish communities. But the idea of an absolute segregation is one that I find lamentable.” IdeasWould BeCommunityLandPoliticianAbsolutesIsraelTerritoryPalestinianSegregationIsraeliTransfersJordanJewish Community Author:Judith Butler