- “Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.” – Mahatma Gandhi (1938)
- “Palestine is our unforgettable historic homeland.” – Yasser Arafat (1988)
- “Palestine is finer than Rome, more majestic than Athens, and more poetic than Alexandria.” – Mahmoud Darwish (1967)
- “It was the one place on earth God created to be a gathering for all people, but it has become the ping-pong ball of history, kicked back and forth between empires.” – Susan Abulhawa, “Mornings in Jenin” (2010)
- “Palestine is a land without a people, waiting for a people without a land.” – Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1925)
- “Palestine is the hallowed nursey of these highest virtues of humanity.” – Edward Said, “Orientalism” (1978)
- “Palestine… sinks deep into the heart of everyone who carries the faith in the promised land, pours out sweet memories, awakens longing, release sighs, and tears apart grieving hearts.” – Ghassan Kanafani, “Returning to Haifa” (1969)
- “Palestine is not a country to be built, but a country to be restored.” – Elias Chacour (1984)
- “Palestine casts a spell over the beholder that is as deeply enchanting as that of the fabled East.” – J.M.N Jeffries, “Palestine: The Reality” (1923)
- “Palestine’s place in the world is like that of a man who has been kidnapped and kept gagged and blindfolded for years by bandits who plied him with fancy drinks and jolly tales.” – Amira Hass, “Drinking the Sea at Gaza” (1999)
WANDERLIST: Ten great travel quotes about Palestine
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