Palestinian Quotes

• Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

  Ahmed Yassin

  War, Land, Liberty

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• We've had an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs, and were historically part of the Arab community. And they had a chance to go many places. And for a variety of political reasons we have sustained this war against Israel now since the 1940's, and I think it's tragic.

  Newt Gingrich

  War, Thinking, Israel

  "Palestinians are an invented people, says Newt Gingrich". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2011.

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• Peace cannot come from punishing the Palestinian people.

  Nick Rahall

  People

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• Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

  Norman Finkelstein

  Home, Years, Brooklyn

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• Israel has gone mad. It's attacking, doing the same thing to the Palestinian and Lebanese people that they have criticised - and with reason - the Holocaust . But this is a new Holocaust.

  Hugo Chavez

  Israel, People, Mad

  "Venezuela 'to sever Israel ties'", news.bbc.co.uk. August 9, 2006.

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• They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

  Norman Finkelstein

  Hero, Fighting, Used

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• The problem is the Palestinians don't recognize the legitimacy of Israel.

  Ruth Wisse

  Israel, Problem, Legitimacy

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• Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.

  Mitt Romney

  Pathways, Accomplish, Interest

  "Mitt Romney: ‘Palestinians Have No Interest Whatsoever In Establishing Peace’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

  Yasser Arafat

  Victory, Flags, Jerusalem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, War, Israel

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• There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Two, Kind, Terrorism

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• I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

  Desmond Tutu

  Racist, Territory, Apartheid

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• The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Israel, Black, Society

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• We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,

  David Ben-Gurion

  Scary, Return, Forget

  "The Great Catastrophe" by Karma Nabulsi, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2006.

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• We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Palestine, Apartheid

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2015

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• In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Black, Population

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• We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Israel, Population

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

  Yasser Arafat

  Blow, Together, World

  Time Magazine (New York), November 11, 1974.

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• It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.

  Albert Einstein

  Sadness, Would Be, Nazi

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• Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

  Abba Eban

  Opportunity, Missing

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Dec. 1988

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• The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

  Michael Ben-Ari

  Israel, Years, Goal

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• No matter how Palestinians resist, they are shot, beaten, arrested, tortured, bombed, segregated, and collectively punished. The problem isn't the mode of Palestinian resistance, it is the existence of Palestinians on their land that Israel takes issue with.

  Remi Kanazi

  Israel, Land, Issues

  FaceBook post by Remi Kanazi from Jan 24, 2014

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• The Israelis haven't done anything to the Palestinians. They treated them with flowers and roses.

  Cenk Uygur

  Flower, Rose, Done

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Differences, Israel

  "Obama: Israel Has "True Partners" In Peace In Abbas, Fayyad". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 21, 2013.

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• There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

  Golda Meir

  Country, Israel, People

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