"I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land"
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The next move is the pronoun politics. “I believe” opens as personal conviction, but it quickly expands into collective entitlement: “the right of the entire Palestinian people.” That phrasing doesn’t merely assert solidarity; it claims to speak for totality, crowding out internal Palestinian pluralism and alternative strategies (statehood in part of the territory, confederation, two-state compromise). “This land” lands like a gavel: not land in general, but a singular, indivisible object.
Context sharpens the intent. As Hezbollah’s leader, Nasrallah operates in a register where resistance is not only policy but brand. This formulation aligns with a long-running current in Arab nationalist and Islamist rhetoric that treats Israel’s legitimacy as the original injury, not one negotiable issue among many. It’s a line designed for mobilization: emotionally legible, strategically uncompromising, and calibrated to turn a political program into a moral boundary marker - who belongs, who betrays, who is allowed to negotiate at all.
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Nasrallah, Hassan. (2026, January 18). I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-that-palestine-is-an-occupied-land-from-18900/
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Nasrallah, Hassan. "I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-that-palestine-is-an-occupied-land-from-18900/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-believe-that-palestine-is-an-occupied-land-from-18900/. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.


