73 Quotes by Palestinian authors

Palestinian words move with the cadence of dabke and the hush of olive groves: spare, stubborn, and generous. They carry sumud, steadfastness, alongside tenderness, braiding memory with hunger for justice, exile with the scent of thyme and coffee. Proverbs speak in flint and bread; poets turn ruins into metaphors of return without surrendering humor or grace. From courtyard laughter to the wind off Jaffa’s sea, these voices hold keys to home and to dignity, reminding that love of land is both a duty and a daily act.

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"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"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, Leader

"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"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"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"We differ on several issues, and this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"The Palestinian Rifle is ready, and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"This is my homeland! No one can kick me out"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however, everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza, they demolished three towers under the pretext that they were built close to a settlement"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The so-called peace path is not peace, and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Since Israel does not differentiate between attacking this group or that, we are saying our people can work individually or collectively to face this aggression"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"If it is in the interest of the Palestinian people to have a hudna, we'll have a hudna. If it isn't, we won't"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

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