Palestine Think Tank

Everybody in Palestine is a politician, and everybody in Palestine has a better vision than all the political leaders.
Abed Hamdan

I hope I could have more time to write love poems only, because I feel it, and I want it, and I need it. But you can’t be concentrated in love poems when your life is threatened. You have, first of all, to defend your life, your existence.
Samih Al-Qasim, Palestinian poet

I prefer the ideas from the small groups. From small factions, from a small organization, from the left, progressive forces, from humanitarian forces to meet together and fight the same enemy which is imperialism, and imperialism you have two sides you have the side that is not your enemy and you have the side that [...]

I am not asking people to empathise with anything; this is not a demand or a desire. The first thing for the spectator to do is have pleasure. The fact that they go and aestheticise a life beyond the film is for me an expression of support for the Palestinian people. I feel Israel is [...]

A generation of Palestinian children face the danger of being psychologically damaged beyond repair unless there is sufficient urgent psychological intervention and an improvement in the political, social and economic conditions in the Gaza Strip.
Marwan Diab, Psychologist of the Gaza Community Health Programme

We Palestinians had no hand in the Holocaust, nor in persecuting Jews. But we were transformed from a peaceable agrarian people into a nation of beggars under occupation, refugees, exiles and second-class citizens of Israel. Worse still, we are now labelled terrorists, suicide bombers or Islamic extremists. Our crime? We were in the wrong place [...]

We, the Arab minority inside Israel are an inseparable part of the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza.
Mohammed Hassan Bakri, filmmaker, actor and former physician

Like shooting stars, the various cultures shine for a brief moment before they fade out of official historical and cultural records of Palestine. The people, however, survive.
Ali Qleibo, Palestinian anthropologist

There can be no peace in the Middle East until the injustices committed by the Israeli government against Palestinians cease. Rather than go to war against Iraq, the United States should examine its support of Israel and by extension that country’s considerable human rights violations.
Edward Said

Palestinian Resistance to the Zionist Occupation is expressed through traditional arts as well as political acts of Resistance.
Nabila Harb