Best 8 quotes of Izzeldin Abuelaish on MyQuotes

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can’t expect an unhealthy person to think logically.

It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

...you shouldn't hate something you don't know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

I am a physician, and as a consequence I see things most clearly in medical terms. I am arguing that we need an immunization program, one that injects people with respect, dignity, and equality. One that inoculates them against hatred.

That's the thing about war: it's never enough to disable the buildings, to blow holes into their middles; instead, they're hit over and over again, as if to pound them to dust, to disintegrate them, to remove them from the earth, to deny that families ever lived in them. But people did live there. And they needed to return, even though there was nothing left to return to except forbidding piles of broken concrete and cable wires sticking out of the heaps like markers of malevolence.