Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout the world.

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.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

The Hamas movement will lead Intifada after Intifada until we liberate Palestine – all of Palestine, Allah willing.

We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality and increase the suffering of the people.

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.

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

The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.

Western "freedom" is a sophisticated form of control.

People don't win because they're physically stronger. It's because they're stronger between the ears.

The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

I don't believe in coincidences.

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors."