Best 28 quotes of Ismail Haniyeh on MyQuotes

Ismail Haniyeh

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    Every Palestinian family feels the effects of the international embargo. But the more the pressure on the government grows, the more support we receive, both from the Palestinian street and from the Arab and Islamic world.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

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

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded by the Israeli army since 1967. During 2006, the number of Palestinians killed reached 650. Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel - about 40% of the male population.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

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

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

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

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives. States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    The people have said yes to change and reform. The majority of the Palestinians have said yes to the slogan, 'Islam is the solution.' The people also voted in favor of our policy of resistance and against the occupation. Our policy is designed to defend Jerusalem, achieve the right of return for all refugees and the release of our prisoners.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

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

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

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

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    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.

  • By Anonym
    Ismail Haniyeh

    Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about.