“Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.” ImportantPlayRolesRightsAchieveRussiaOccupationAggressionPalestinian Author:Khaled Mashal
“The important issue for us is bringing (people) who recognize the Palestinian people's rights and work on ending the occupation (to the Palestinian territories) and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” PeopleImportantIssuesRightsConflictOccupationTerritoryPalestinianIsraeliImportant IssuesIsraeli Palestinian Conflict Author:Mohammed Dahlan
“It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.” IfsHumansWould BeLawSpeakJusticeRightsPositionMembersInternationalCongressHuman RightsIsraelDefenseBalancedPalestinianPalestineSuicidalInternational Law Author:Jimmy Carter
“The answer is to let Israel say it will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, release the prisoners and recognize the rights of the refugees to return to Israel. Hamas will have a position if this occurs.” IfsStatesAnswersRightsPositionReturnIsraelReleaseBordersPrisonerPalestinianRefugeePalestineHamas Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“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
“When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.” PeopleIfsMeanSaidWould BeCertainDifficultSituationRightsWeekPatienceCookingEndureCurrentsOilPalestinianItemsOlivesDifficult Situations Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“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
“God willing, we shall come to a stage where the world looks at the Palestinian question, and Palestinian rights on Palestinian national soil, as well as the questions of the occupied Syrian and Lebanese territories. These are the bases on which peace will be built.” WorldWellsLooksRightsStageWillingBuiltBasesSoilTerritoryPalestinianLebanese Author:King Hussein I
“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