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Daily Inspiration Quote by Hassan Nasrallah

"If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine"

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It lands like a tidy “common sense” answer, but it’s engineered to do something sharper: collapse a sprawling, blood-soaked political conflict into a single, supposedly self-evident directive. Nasrallah frames the line as a modest personal opinion (“If you are asking for my point of view”), then immediately upgrades it into a moral imperative that pretends not to be one. The rhetorical trick is the contrast between the soft opening and the hard closure: a conversational shrug followed by a command.

The phrase “go back to Palestine” also smuggles in a whole architecture of claims. It implies a stable, uncontested place called “Palestine” that functions as an obvious destination, while sidestepping the questions that make the demand explosive: which Palestine, under what sovereignty, with what borders, and with what guarantees of safety and political rights? It’s not just about geography; it’s a statement about legitimacy and belonging, a way of treating Palestinian displacement as the central wound and Israel’s current arrangements as contingent at best.

Context matters: Nasrallah speaks as a revolutionary leader whose power is partly performative, built on positioning himself as the uncompromising defender of Palestinian rights against Israeli occupation and Arab-state accommodation. The line signals solidarity, but it also serves as a litmus test. Agreeing is framed as sanity; disagreeing becomes moral failure. In one sentence, he simplifies, galvanizes, and polarizes - which is often the point.

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Nasrallah, Hassan. (2026, January 18). If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-are-asking-for-my-point-of-view-i-would-18901/

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Nasrallah, Hassan. "If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-are-asking-for-my-point-of-view-i-would-18901/.

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"If you are asking for my point of view, I would say that the Palestinians should go back to Palestine." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-are-asking-for-my-point-of-view-i-would-18901/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Hassan Nasrallah (born August 31, 1960) is a Revolutionary from Lebanon.

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