"The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world"
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The sentence does strategic work by expanding “Palestine refugees” beyond the camp imagery many outsiders recognize. By naming “the homeland and the Diaspora,” Abbas collapses geography into a single political community, insisting that exile is not a peripheral issue but the central wound. The repetition of “to end...to end...to realize...” is a drumbeat of closure; it implies that the refugee question is not an unfortunate byproduct of conflict but an ongoing, correctable injustice.
The subtext sits in “to realize their rights.” That phrasing is deliberately legalistic, a nod to international law and UN language, but it’s also a pressure point: “rights” quietly invokes the contested right of return without having to say it, preserving diplomatic flexibility while signaling resolve to Palestinians. The line “forced to take refuge more than once” adds a generational dimension, reminding listeners that displacement is recursive, not historical. It reframes refugees not as people frozen in 1948 but as a population repeatedly destabilized by wars, occupations, and regional politics.
Contextually, this is aimed at two audiences at once: Palestinians who need reassurance that their leadership still claims the refugee file, and an international community being asked to see the issue as unfinished business, not humanitarian background noise.
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| Topic | Human Rights |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Abbas, Mahmoud. (2026, January 16). The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-time-has-come-to-end-the-suffering-and-the-104485/
Chicago Style
Abbas, Mahmoud. "The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-time-has-come-to-end-the-suffering-and-the-104485/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-time-has-come-to-end-the-suffering-and-the-104485/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
