Palestine Quotes - Page 7

• I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

  Freida Pinto

  Israel, India And Pakistan, Common

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• Palestine is about how we drink the water, whether we are being ecological or not. Palestine is our way of exercising our daily living. That's what's going to solve the problem of Palestine. It's also how we think of ourselves spiritually. This kind of disconnectedness is harmful to the person who is acting that way and is sometimes annoying.

  Elia Suleiman

  Exercise, Thinking, Water

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be void of a even a single drop of Hebrew blood - without any cultural or historical ties to the Holy Land and in fact simple converts to a base form of Judaism. Clinton eulogized Rabinowitz (Yitzhak Rabin) as a son of David and a son of Solomon. You must know that this man was a Khazar of Turko- Mongolian lineage, and can in no way represent a 'return' since his southern Russian ancestors never made it down to Palestine until 1948.

  Dave Hunt

  Son, Intelligent, Simple

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• I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

  Michael Franti

  Years, Gaza Strip, Iraq

  "On the Side of the Peacemakers". Interview with Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. March 13, 2006.

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• BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine.

  Ronnie Kasrils

  Israel, Victory, Three

  "Destructive 'Agnosticism'" by Yitzhak Santis, www.haaretz.com. November 26, 2010.

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• We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

  Chaim Weizmann

  World, Helping, You Like It

  Judische Rundschau, No. 4, 1920.

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• I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

  Carlos Santana

  Wall, Kindness, Compassion

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• All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Country, Class, Rights

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• I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.

  Elia Suleiman

  Film, Just One, One Thing

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• Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my hope and ambitions are in the right place, you can judge that in my films. I want to make films that diffuse any local notion. Cinema criss-crosses borders and check points. If the film is good, then it's universal.

  Elia Suleiman

  Ambition, Judging, Borders

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• A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.

  Elie Wiesel

  America, Germany, Safe

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Israel is a country and should exist. And a country by the name of Palestine should be made. Two different governments of Palestine and Israel can live beside each other happily and both of them should recognize each other.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Different

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• Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?

  Susan Abulhawa

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

  John Masefield

  Sweet, Home, Wine

  'Cargoes' (1903)

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• I am not Mr. Chairman. I am His Excellency, the President of Palestine.

  Yasser Arafat

  President, Chairman

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• Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.

  Iqbal Sacranie

  Fire, Usa, Iraq

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• The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.

  Barack Obama

  Israel, People, Borders

  "Is President Obama betraying Israel?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. March 02, 2015.

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• The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war, not only negatively in the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of the Arab Legion. In this struggle, the Arabs were striving for the independence and the unity of Palestine, Syria and Iraq.

  Haj Amin al-Husseini

  War, Struggle, Heart

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• In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is forbidden that this harm the continued struggle against the Zionist enemy. Cooperation and understanding between the P.L.O. and the rejectionist organizations is what will lead to the speedy retreat of Israel from the occupied territories in the first stage, until the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Only a state like that can then continue the struggle to remove the enemy from all Palestinian lands.

  Yasser Arafat

  Struggle, Israel, Order

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• President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Israel, Two, President

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• Palestine was the West Point and Annapolis for the world. In that little country God was training up a people out of whom, when the fullness of the time should come, His gospel cadets should emerge, fitted by all the training of all their national history for going out among the heathen and proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Christ.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Country, People, Training

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.

  Bruce Dern

  Country, Real, Progress

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• His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

  Arthur Balfour

  Home, Government, Majesty

  1917 The Balfour Declaration, made in a letter to Lord Rothschild, 2 Nov.

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• The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contemporaries in Palestine adored and implored Him for the favors they needed, so we should praise, thank Him, and implore Him for what we need.

  Pope Pius XII

  Jesus, Keys, Needs

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• California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Country, Land, California

  Christopher Isherwood, James J. Berg, Chris Freeman (2001). “Conversations with Christopher Isherwood”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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