Palestine
Quotes & Thinkers from Palestine
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"hinking, thinking and thinking. My heart not feeling that which my mind thought, nor my mind ceasing to dominate my soul, and every thought like a hard block of lumber."
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Mahmoud al-Zahar
Politics
b. 1945
2 quotes
Yasser Arafat
Politics
1929–2004
"Let it collapse, it will be the fault of Israel and the Americans."
14 quotes
Waleed Al-Husseini
Literature
b. 1989
"When we begin to close our eyes on veiled girls in the name of "modesty" ... we finally close our eyes to girls raped under the guise of "marriage."
20 quotes
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Ahmed Sheikh
Journalism
b. 1949
"When the country is occupied and the people are being killed by the enemy, everyone must take action, even if he sacrifices himself in so doing."
3 quotes
Salam Fayyad
Politics
b. 1952
"Islam is a religion of peace and Hamas is ruining that image and causing chaos for all of Palestine and helping Israel to win."
2 quotes
Jibril Rajoub
Politics
b. 1953
"Resistance does not just mean sending some martyrdom-seeker to Tel Aviv....If resistance meant nothing more than bearing arms and making a big fuss – this would not be resistance, but suicide."
1 quotes
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Hussein Barghouthi
Literature
1954–2002
"hinking, thinking and thinking. My heart not feeling that which my mind thought, nor my mind ceasing to dominate my soul, and every thought like a hard block of lumber."
1 quotes
Saeb Erekat
Politics
1955–2020
1 quotes
Haj Amin al-Husseini
1897–1974
1 quotes
Michel Sabbah
b. 1933
"Nobody can tell us Christians how to dress, how to live or how to pray."
1 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Let it collapse, it will be the fault of Israel and the Americans."
— Yasser Arafat, b. 1929View →
"Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."
— Yasser Arafat, b. 1929View →
"We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!"
— Yasser Arafat, b. 1929View →
"What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories."
— Yasser Arafat, b. 1929View →
"This child, who is grasping the stone, facing the tank, is it not the greatest message to the world when that hero becomes a martyr? We are proud of them."
— Yasser Arafat, b. 1929View →