“Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.” TwoStatesTogetherMovingSidesPresidentViolenceSecurityAmbitionIsraelMinistersPrimeOccupationPrime MinisterPalestinePeace And SecurityPalestine And Israel Author:Abdallah II
“Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.” WarStatesUseFatherLinesSinWhiteDestinyViolenceConditionsAwarenessMassDrawsDiscoveryConstantThreatKillingMythDoctrineContemporaryInnocencePermanentShockOccupationManifestColonialismWhite SupremacyInvasionOur FatherTheftSystematicSupremacyStraight LinesForgedIncarcerationSettlersMass IncarcerationManifest Destiny Author:Bill Ayers
“A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others.” ViolenceEnvyOccupationNonviolenceExploitation Book:Socialism of My Conception Source: Socialism of My Conception
“Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.” FactsViolenceDiseaseConcernedResistanceMortalsOccupationSymptoms Author:Uri Avnery
“The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.” PeopleThinkingHardLevelsViolenceTerribleDown AndPrisonHorribleVarietyShootingOccupationHumiliationSpectacular Author:Molly Crabapple
“Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.” FactsViolenceResistanceOccupation Author:Uri Avnery
“Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore, the first responsibility is to put an end to the occupation.” FirstsEndsResponsibilityViolenceDiseaseConcernedMortalsOccupationSymptoms Author:Uri Avnery
“The international community...cannot simply call on Palestinians to abandon violence in the face of Israeli occupation and remain silent when the nonviolent activists are politically repressed. This only reinforces the idea that the use of force reigns supreme and that Palestinians have no choice but to accept hardships at the hands of their Israeli lords.” IdeasUseHandsFacesChoicesForceCommunityAcceptingLordViolenceSilentInternationalSupremeAbandonHardshipActivistOccupationPalestinianReignIsraeliInternational CommunityRepressedUse Of ForceIsraeli Occupation Author:Yousef Munayyer