#palestine

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#arabs #israel #palestine #zionism #zionist

There is no more Palestine. Finished. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#more #palestine

I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#i #iron #loose #palestine #penetrated

It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#fate #fathers #goal #goes #jewish

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#historic #home #marvelous #name #our

Zionism demands a publicly recognized and legally secured homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. This platform is unchangeable. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

#homeland #jewish #jewish people #legally #palestine

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#eyes #fixed #jews #orthodox #palestine

My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#copy #gaza #guide #had #i

Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian? ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#mother #palestine #palestinians #death

Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation. ↗

— Susan Abulhawa

#israeli-palestinian-conflict #palestine #death