Palestinian Quotes - Page 20

• I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, People, Unfair

  Source: collider.com

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• The movie [Miral] is not pro-Palestinian. It's about Palestinians. It's a Palestinian story, written by a Palestinian person. I don't know anybody else that could have done that

  Julian Schnabel

  Stories, Done, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• The suicide bomber who blows up Israeli children cannot transform himself into a martyr. The Palestinian problem is not an Islamic problem.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Suicide, Children, Islamic

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• Big efforts should be made to integrate Israel's Arab citizens into the fabric of the Israeli society and the Israeli economy. That's really the key to any further progress to do with the Palestinians beyond Israel's borders.

  Moshe Arens

  Keys, Israel, Effort

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• For decades, since the mid-twentieth century, the nationalist movement, and Fatah in particular, has dominated the political scene. Palestinian politics were primarily nationalistic, secular. Now, suddenly we are seeing the election of a religious party with extreme political ideologies and with a social agenda that seems inconsistent with the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Religious, Party, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think people need to see on both sides. Seeing how the people in the Palestinian Territories can't move around - it's a maze now, with the wall, the road blocks and everything else. It takes you hours to get from one person's house to your job or to a friend or even to the hospital if someone's hurt. Then you go into Israel and see in Tel Aviv, where they have 12-18 bomb threats a day, which are real. It completely disrupts their life. Or Sderot where bombs are falling daily from the sky fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Hurt, Jobs, Wall

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Palestinians don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.

  John Pilger

  Order, Oil, Upset

  Source: progressive.org

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• Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has gobbled up almost all of Palestinian land with its illegal settlements. To talk about justice in that battle, you have to talk about those settlements. But, if you just talk about human rights, then you can say, "Oh, Hamas violates human rights," "Israel violates human rights." Ergo, both are bad.

  Arundhati Roy

  Land, Rights, Israel

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The priorities for the new Palestinian government is the economy. If Hamas cannot pay salaries when they form the government, there will be a collapse. People cannot afford to have that happen; there is nothing for people to fall back on. If people go hungry, there will be chaos - not just instability, but a breakdown. And there will be violence with a spillover effect. This is crucial to understand.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Fall, People, Priorities

  Source: progressive.org

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• I hope that one day I will gain power somehow, and somehow convince myself that there is still hope and go back and fight, people who's trying to make that place worth living for both Jews and Palestinians.

  Sayed Kashua

  Fighting, People, One Day

  "'It's A Surviving Tool': 'Native' Tells Satirical Stories Of Life In Israel". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. February 12, 2016.

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• We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.

  Walid Shoebat

  Stars, Flags, Jerusalem

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• What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

  Russell Means

  Europe, United States, Movement

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• The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders.

  Van Jones

  Color, Years, Rights

  "Wartimes: Reports From The Opposition". Studio album by Van Jones and Mumia Abu-Jamal, www.powerlineblog.com. 2003.

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• You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the Palestinians to understand why Israel is behaving the way it does: What is the legacy of the Holocaust, what are the fears of average Jewish people?

  Uri Avnery

  Israel, Average, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.

  Amos Oz

  Israel, People, Twenties

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I am very hopeful that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian injustice.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Hopeful, Injustice, Israeli

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• There is no political will for peace in the Israeli government. They're not serious about political peace because they're still building settlements and demolishing Palestinian homes. That is a great tragedy.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Home, Government, Political Will

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The era of a Palestinian state is over.

  Naftali Bennett

  Eras, States

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state.

  Naftali Bennett

  Opportunity, Israel, Victory

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I don't want to block every contact with the Palestinians, I think that would be a mistake, and I think that Abu Mazen has an independent status as democratically elected head of the Palestinian people, and it's important if I will talk with him.

  Ehud Olmert

  Block, Mistake, Independent

  Source: content.time.com

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• Part of the French political class is realising that there is are large number of Muslim people coming from the ghettos who want to make themselves heard, politically, especially about foreign policy issues. Its electoral weight can bring back to the forefront the Palestinian issue.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Ghetto, Class, Numbers

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.

  Colin Powell

  People, Judging, Leader

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

  Colin Powell

  Leader, United States, Authority

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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, Palestinian Refugees, Israeli

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

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• How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to return to the Palestinian state, and allowing a number of refugees to settle, with general compensation, where they want to settle? It is not an abstract problem. It involves four million human beings, and more than fifty years of various sorts of misery. But it is not an insolvable problem. It involves some good will, and a readiness to give up historic myths on both sides.

  Uri Avnery

  Giving Up, Numbers, Israel

  Source: progressive.org

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