231 Quotes About Palestine

The fish,Even in the fisherman's net,Still carries,The smell of the sea.

The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in the streets, Bedouins and bankers. The Turks and Haredim, the showy Greek and Russian processions -- everyone seemed to be in costume, reenacting the miraculous past.

Bringing up wrongdoings of the Israeli government is therefore about as relevant to the Holocaust as mentioning the warmongering decisions of recent US administrations in relation to the slaughter of Native Americans when America was first colonized centuries ago. In other words, whatever your opinion of Israel’s handling of the Middle East conflict – and we ourselves have some misgivings on that matter – that is in no way shape or form related to the facts of the Holocaust.

Bringing Israel and modern Zionism into the subject of the Holocaust is to bring current (i.e. late 20th and early 21st Century) issues into a historical event that occurred on another continent altogether in the early-mid 20th Century.

لو سألوني عن رام الله لقلت: رام الله هي تلك المدينة المعبقة برائحة الحرية والاحتلال على حد سواء... تلك المدينة التي حتى في خطاياها عبادة

إننا نفضل رأس خازرق فوق تراب الوطن على رحاب الغربة كلها. فقد وجدناها، كلها، حراباً وفِراشها أشبه بفراش فقير هندي؛ رؤوس مسامير أو خوازيق صغيرة وكبيرة على قدر المقام!

We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.

The collective heartbeat of the oppressed will always be louder than any missile strike, gunshot or bomb.

هل عرف شعب آخر غير الشعب الفلسطيني هذا العدد من الهجرات؟ هذا الكم من المنافي؟ وهذه الأعداد من المذابح؟ دون ان يكافأ بوطن .. أعني وطنه؟