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Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. Ismail Haniyeh

Truth Time People Cover-Up Some People Think Hidden Some Fades True Revealed Fake Time Goes By Goes Little Decoration Away

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way. Hiam Abbass

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. Mahmoud Darwish

Grass Blade Only Poetry Attachment Like Armies Wall Human Confirming While Against Growing March Resist Fragility

I don't myself believe in a two-state solution. I believe in a one-state solution. Edward Said

Myself Believe Solution

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard. Mahmoud Abbas

People World Cause Believe Aim Settlement Our Logic Rather Only Ruthless Countries Force Occupation Israel Efforts Legitimacy Want Regard Gain Apartheid Us Stand Activities Palestine

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. Mahmoud Darwish

Oppression Elsewhere Several Born Only He Occupation Prisons However Times Person Die May Place Transformed Homeland Nightmare

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. Mahmoud Darwish

History Victim Laughs Both Aggressor

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Day Values Diversity Clothes Every Our Immersed Faces Point Rituals Almost Attitudes Smells Cultural Cultural Diversity Traditions Beliefs

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Book Word Mouth Collection Recommendations Entire General Tend Through Mainly Like Read Reviews Author Personal Word-Of-Mouth Choose

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war. Abu Abbas

War Mistakes Everybody Feel Remorse Makes

The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal. Abu Abbas

Struggle Political Purpose Simply Armed Reach Goal

The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles. Edward Said

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. Edward Said

Life Politics War Travel Beginning Young Think Someone Directly Write Involved Until Renaissance Himself Felt Caught Up June English Who Professor Palestinian Started

I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation. Hiam Abbass

Love Risks Situation See Take How Cope

I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why. Hiam Abbass

Myself Good Character Hate Human Being Complexity Bad Would Someone Could Written Know Cliche Understand Still Behind Human Just Being Influence Cannot Reason Why Play Need

I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war. Hiam Abbass

War Distance Caused Exile Up Grew Aware

I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals. Ismail Haniyeh

War Hope Goals Will Thought Think State Case Give Had Supposedly Well-Informed Without Israel Causes Subject Question Historical Conduct Decades American Refugee Legitimate Achieving Which Against Realities Root Population Why Ever Careful

The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established. Ismail Haniyeh

People World Political Liberate First State States Through Beg Established Decisions Land Then Created Body Initiatives Palestinian Palestinian People

Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived. Ismail Haniyeh

Saying Time Dignity Pride Enemies Spring Revolution Changed Arab Arab Spring Allies Longer Israel Arrived Times Egypt Tunisia Zionist

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. Ismail Haniyeh

God Constitution Book Try Crime Will Become Lesson State Our Say Out Willing Carry Tries Came His Committed Anyone Against Apart Holy Holy Book Should Who Tear

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy. Ismail Haniyeh

Democracy Respect Introduced Results Anybody Ask Should Who

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