Sayed Kashua Quotes

Occupation is the Palestinian people's tragedy, but also Israel's present. We must liberate both people from the occupation.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

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

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

I think the measure not only expedient but necessary. The enemy will certainly use them against us if he can get possession of them …. I think those who are employed should be freed. It would be neither just nor wise, in my opinion, to require them to serve as slaves.

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings and actions that make for peace and freedom. Conversely almost nobody wants war or tyranny; but a great many people find an intense pleasure in the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for war and tyranny.

Peace is a human right and those who deny you peace are those who are violating an essential right.

Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.

Palestinian children deserve the same right to be free in their own land as Israeli children in their land. A two-state solution will finally bring Israelis the security and normalcy to which they are entitled, and Palestinians the sovereignty and dignity they deserve.

Genuine supporters of Palestinians' rights are fighting for equality, justice and freedom, aims that are in diametric opposition to any form of antisemitism.

When I visited Jerusalem and the West Bank back in 2008, I was shocked by how individual Palestinians and whole Palestinian communities were treated by the Israeli government. From the illegal settlements to daily humiliations at checkpoints, the evidence of gross injustice and the human suffering it brings is indisputable.

Because many people deny the Palestinian struggle. They deny them everything. They deny them humanity, they deny them the right to be on the land they were born in. They deny them the right to return to the homes that were stolen from them, to build Israel.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Without freedom you cannot have real peace.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.