Palestinian Quotes

There will be no Palestinian state

— Max Blumenthal

The Palestinians are beasts walking on two legs.

— Menachem Begin

Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

— Yasser Arafat

I believe in the liberation of the Palestinian people.

— Linda Sarsour

The old will die and the young will forget.

— David Ben-Gurion

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.

— Naftali Bennett

The Palestinian people's needs must be respected.

— Bernie Sanders

I'm a Palestinian-Muslim, but I'm also a progressive.

— Linda Sarsour

It's not good for Israel to have a Palestinian state in the heart of Israel.

— Ayelet Shaked

I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.

— Federica Mogherini

The aid cannot be a sword over the heads of the Palestinian people to blackmail our people.

— Esmail Haniya

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

— Elliott Abrams

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

— Ahmed Yassin

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

— Jane Harman

Palestine is only a stones throw away for a small Palestinian boy or girl.

— Yasser Arafat

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

— Ahmed Yassin

The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to…

— Ali Abunimah

The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people,…

— Danny Danon

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will…

— Natan Sharansky

Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . .…

— Chana Bloch

I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is…

— Yasser Arafat

Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be…

— Bruce Dern

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that…

— Abu Abbas

Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated…

— Marwan Barghouti

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so…

— Desmond Tutu

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee…

— Ismail Haniyeh

I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief…

— Helen Thomas

What Hamas and the Palestinian people are doing is legitimate resistance against the Israeli occupation. Our resistance is confined to the territories…

— Khaled Mashal

When American administration will find that their interest is to follow up with the international conference and to find peace in this…

— Yasser Arafat

I was a witness to lots of death... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful... no matter who they are.…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

I think it is possible for the world to see a Palestinian state - I'm not going to put a time frame…

— Barack Obama

Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem…

— Richard N. Haass

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every…

— Moshe Dayan

Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it…

— Vittorio Arrigoni

Hamas is ISIS, and ISIS is Hamas. They're branches of the same tree. People who wantonly rocket our cities and want to…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

In his latest book Marc Ellis asks the defining question for Jewish life today: 'Can injustice, represented by Jewish domination of Jerusalem,…

— Rosemary Radford Ruether

In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to…

— Amos Oz

We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a…

— Judith Butler

Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own…

— William J. Clinton