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The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.
Ismail Haniyeh
People
Remove
Has-Been
Launch
Martyrdom
Put
Occupation
Operations
Said
Terrorist
Hamas
Been
American
Did
List
Stopped
Then
Organisations
Wars
Europeans
Now
Why
Resisting
The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.
Ismail Haniyeh
Corruption
People
Vision
Victory
Doubt
No Doubt
Only
Hamas
However
Authority
Reason
Helped
Chose
Based
Why
Palestinian
Palestinian People
Program
Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about.
Ismail Haniyeh
Will
First
State
Recognize
Borders
About
Know
Talking
Israel
Which
Then
Should
Palestinian
Palestinian State
The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.
Ismail Haniyeh
People
World
Will
Free
Community
Living
Aid
Liberals
Siege
See
Free People
Like
Stop
International
International Community
Palestinian
Palestinian People
Received
When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.
Ismail Haniyeh
Food
Patience
Rights
Cooking
People
National
Few
Situation
Difficult
Our
Our People
Would
Would-Be
Eat
Rather
Only
Weeks
Without
Said
Items
Than
Current
Oil
Endure
Mean
Really
Certain
Meant
Palestinians
Necessary
Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.
Ismail Haniyeh
Government
Family
World
Pressure
Every
Embargo
Arab
More
Both
Support
Feels
Islamic
Islamic World
Effects
International
Palestinian
Street
Grows
Receive
I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.
Ismail Haniyeh
Unhappy
Toward
Know
Policies
Governments
Europe
Many
Palestinians
Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
Mahmoud Abbas
Citizen
Action
Military
Cities
Civil
Determines
Part
Occupation
Territory
Israel
West
West Bank
Any
Bank
Whether
Unilateral
Reside
Palestinian
Right
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
Mahmoud Abbas
State
Earth
Several
Allow
Another
Afford
Authorities
Next
I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
Mahmoud Abbas
Myself
Peace
Shoes
Security
Borders
Inside
Put
Like
Israel
Just
Want
Certainly
Humans
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas
Country
Build
State
We Cannot
Small
Pieces
Viable
Cannot
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
Mahmoud Abbas
Democracy
Respect
Result
National
Consultation
Principle
Accepted
Verdict
Committed
Popular
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.
Mahmoud Abbas
Freedom
World
Will
Independence
Ensure
Able
Civilized
Takes
Withdrawal
Place
Manner
Requirement
Show
Deserve
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
Mahmoud Abbas
Today
Will
Beginning
Our
Minister
Sharon
Prime
Prime Minister
New
New Era
Witnessed
Era
Israelis
Cease
Quiet
Tranquility
Wherever
Against
Land
Agreed
Acts
Palestinians
Violence
Starting
Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
Mahmoud Abbas
Daily
Peace
Opportunity
Wish
Pledge
See
Fact
True
Protect
Becomes
Order
Region
Us
Let Us
And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
Mahmoud Abbas
Today
Peace
Obligations
Opportunity
Will
Whatever
Our
Respecting
Through
Implementing
Protect
Also
Provided
Effort
Commitments
Newborn
Interest
Assert
Here
Save
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.
Mahmoud Abbas
Time
Rights
Suffering
World
Once
Plight
Some
More
Take
Come
Forced
End
Than
Refuge
Refugees
Different
Places
Them
Realize
Different Places
Displacement
Homeland
Palestine
Millions
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
Mahmoud Darwish
Me
You
Change
Trust
People
Complicated
Some People
Young
Say
Some
Poetry
Attract
Readers
Accept
How
Accomplishment
Trust Me
Different
Ask
Different People
Your
Many
Suggestions
The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
Mahmoud Darwish
Today
World
Better
Tomorrow
Will
Nation
Situation
Worse
Only
Feels
Days
Always
Than
Hold
Certainty
Palestinians
The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
Mahmoud Darwish
Reality
Stronger
Metaphor
Than
Palestine
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Mahmoud Darwish
Beautiful
You
Peace
Walls
Beauty
Down
Find
Something
Poetry
Read
Always
Making
Breaks
Coexistence
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
Mahmoud Darwish
Arabs
Tension
Between
Identity
Always
Israel
Nationality
When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
Mahmoud Darwish
Age
Emotions
Control
Learned
How
Passed
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
Mahmoud Darwish
Poet
Finally
Says
Poetry
He
Importance
How
Measured
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Mahmoud Darwish
Best
Book
Progress
First
Bad
Writer
His
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
Mahmoud Darwish
Sometimes
Mother
Poet
Before
Think
About
Poem
Write
Feel
She
Read
Am
Palestine
Palestinians
Symbol
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