Palestine Think Tank

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams, Second President of the United States

Immediately after their 1967 conquest of the West Bank and Gaza, Israeli military occupation authorities issued orders to the effect that no new wells were to be drilled to supply water to the Palestinian population. All new wells drilled in the ensuing 28 years provide water only for Israel and for the Jewish settlements in [...]

Prison is not awful, but a process of compromises. You give in on each of your principles, one by one, until at last you "lose your sense of self," you become "thoroughly disgusted with yourself."
Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet and anti-apartheid activist

With Israel at 60, the memories of its first 19 years as "smaller Israel" (1948-1967) are a remote past, fading even in the minds of the small group of elderly Israelis who grew up in it. The overwhelming majority of Israelis, and Palestinians for this matter too, never knew an occupation-free Israel. It is impossible, [...]

Black burn spots covered vast areas of farmlands that belong to residents of Boreen and Aseera Al Qibliyya villages, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus; hours after Israeli settlers burnt their lands and uprooted hundreds of trees.
Amin Abu Warda, on the burning of land in Nablus this week caused by Israeli Settlers

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson

Intuition and concepts constitute … the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Emmanuel Kant

How many innocent lives will be wasted, ripped and torn apart before the world is able to see clearly; before the world starts to realize the nature of the occupation, the nature of a powerful army that uses Palestinian land and Palestinian bodies as its training zone and battle field.
IMEMC report

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
Elisabeth Kenny

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought." The Greek said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought."
Edith Hamilton