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"Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large"

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The line reads less like poetry than like a boundary marker hammered into the ground. Ahmed Yassin isn’t reaching for metaphor; he’s asserting jurisdiction. “Our Jihad” functions as a claim of ownership over both struggle and meaning: jihad here is not a private spiritual register but a public, organized campaign with a named collective “our,” a movement that speaks as if it can bind a people to a program.

The most strategic word is “remain.” It implies permanence, discipline, and refusal of mission creep. In the context of Palestinian militancy and the post-1967 geography of occupation, “remain” pushes back against two pressures at once: external accusations that the fight is a roaming, global holy war, and internal temptations to export violence beyond the core territorial dispute. Yassin is framing Hamas’s violence as geographically tethered, implicitly arguing legitimacy through locality: this is about land, not spectacle.

“Palestinian soil” is doing rhetorical heavy lifting as well. It’s not “the territories” or “the West Bank and Gaza,” language that would concede the administrative vocabulary of diplomacy. It’s a totalizing phrase that carries maximalist implication: the land is Palestinian by definition, and the struggle is therefore defensive by definition.

Then there’s the curious redundancy: “wide and large.” It’s insistence, not elegance, an amplifying gesture aimed at an audience that needs reassurance that the horizon hasn’t shrunk. The subtext is a promise and a warning: the conflict is rooted, enduring, and expansively imagined, even when the physical ground underfoot is fragmented.

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Yassin, Ahmed. (2026, January 17). Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/our-jihad-will-remain-on-palestinian-soil-that-is-37121/

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Yassin, Ahmed. "Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/our-jihad-will-remain-on-palestinian-soil-that-is-37121/.

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"Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/our-jihad-will-remain-on-palestinian-soil-that-is-37121/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Ahmed Yassin (January 1, 1936 - March 22, 2004) was a Activist from Palestine.

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