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Quotes by Palestinian Authors
"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest."
"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations."
"Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands."
"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!"
"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."
"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."
"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel."
"I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza."
"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."
"We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland."
"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."
"We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967."
"The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world."
"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."
"Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield."
"Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map."
"The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few."
"We chose this road, and will end with martyrdom or victory."
"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."
"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."
"We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business."
"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."
"The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people."
"Our main battle has always been against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers."
"But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price."
"In all cases our stance will be determined by what serves the interests of the Palestinian people."
"We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book."
"There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom."
"We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard."
"We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation."
"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."
"Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred."
"No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another."
"Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements."
"Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?"
"In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine."
"We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave."
"Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric."
"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics."
"We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations."
"You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God."
"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."
"I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war."
"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."
"We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces."
"I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders."
"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."
"We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority."
"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."
"Our Jihad will remain on Palestinian soil that is wide and large."
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