Palestinian Refugees Quotes

• Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Home, Past, Years

  "We Want Peace and Stability". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. June 12, 2006.

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• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist.

  Moshe Dayan

  Book, Israel, Names

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Israel, Cleansing

  "The Racism Barrier" by M.Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. October 3, 2003.

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• What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Eight, Years

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

  Moshe Dayan

  Gun, House, Tree

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• If the refugees return to Israel - Israel will cease to exist.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Israel, Return, Ifs

  "A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO". Book by Harris O. Schoenberg, 1989.

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• We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Return, Zionist

  "Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet" by Michael Bar Zohar, Prentice-Hall, (p. 157), 1967.

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• Referring to Palestinian refugees: "We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Return, Referring, Palestinian

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• For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon, bringing them to Israel, holding them as hostages. It's been going on for decades, has anybody called for an invasion of Israel?

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Sea, Cyprus

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

  Moshe Sharett

  Tides, Return, Impossible

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• Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  People, Three, World

  "1967: Our rights have to be recognised" by Ismail Haniyeh, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2007.

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• I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Long, Israeli, Has Beens

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. Today, as you are aware, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan and Iraq are being overwhelmed by those fleeing the conflict in Syria, often with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Many are severely tortured - abused women and their traumatized children whose husbands, fathers, and brothers have been killed or permanently disabled.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Brother, Children, Husband

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.

  Walter Russell Mead

  Done, Lebanon, Jordan

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