Gaza's Quotes

#1. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

Ramsay MacMullen

#2. Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#3. Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

Yasser Arafat

#4. 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.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#5. Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

Ahmed Yassin

#6. The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.

Ross Kemp

#7. Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.

Elliott Abrams

#8. In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

Anja Niedringhaus

#9. A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#10. What to tell you? Gaza is frustrating these days - well, these years. It's a good exercise in patience, at least.

Refaat Alareer

#11. Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Tom Segev

#12. It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

Noam Chomsky

#13. Israel is the number one rogue state threat to Middle Eastern peace with its nuclear arms and acts of outright aggression towards its peaceful neighbours Syria and Lebanon - and genocidal actions against the marginalised Palestinians of the West Bank - and Gaza in particular.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#14. The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt
Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve

Jimmy Carter

#15. Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan?
It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.

Dennis Kucinich

#16. Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.

Desmond Tutu

#17. It's impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

Saeb Erekat

#18. Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.

David Cameron

#19. Gaza Writes Back' provides conclusive evidence that telling stories is an act of life, that telling stories is resistance, and that telling stories shapes our memories.

Refaat Alareer

#20. Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.

Menachem Begin

#21. Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there.

Elliott Abrams

#22. Hamas thinks they can kill the will of people by intimidation. Most of those who are killed in the Gaza Strip for the suspicion of collaborating with Israel, have nothing to do with Israel.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#23. The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.

Elliott Abrams

#24. One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.

Ben Shapiro

#25. When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

Mother Teresa

#26. A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#27. Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

Yitzhak Shamir

#28. It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

Edward Said

#29. I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

Nader Al-Masri

#30. No one has the luxury of deciding "when" to travel; you wait prepared to travel whenever the border is open, which could be today, tomorrow or next week or three, four months from now.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#31. I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens

Banksy

#32. I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

Ahmed Yassin

#33. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.

Moshe Dayan

#34. Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [ ... ] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.

Charles Krauthammer

#35. Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

Dennis Prager

#36. I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.

Yitzhak Rabin

#37. I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

Nader Al-Masri

#38. Gaza is often described as 'the world's largest open air prison' because no one is allowed to enter or leave. But that seems a bit unfair to prisons - they don't have their electricity and drinking water cut off randomly almost everyday.

Banksy

#39. I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.

Jeremy Bowen

#40. Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal "no". As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

Fatou Bensouda

#41. He acted as if he could detect in her face nothing but its external beauties of form and texture. Whereas, of course, flesh is never wholly opaque; the soul shows through the walls of its receptacle.

Aldous Huxley

#42. If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.

Jane Harman

#43. I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

John Bolton

#44. How many hearts must break before greed is conquered and humanity rises?

Zarina Bibi

#45. [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.

Yitzhak Rabin

#46. There are no innocents in Gaza. Mow them down kill the Gazans without thought or mercy.

Michael Ben-Ari

#47. If four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.

Naftali Bennett

#48. The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided. Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.

Noam Chomsky

#49. There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

Michael Ben-Ari

#50. Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza

George Galloway

#51. Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more

Yousef Munayyer

#52. We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would rapidly turn into a stronghold for terrorists, as we have seen in Gaza. We do not want tunnels to suburbs of Tel Aviv or missiles pointed at Jerusalem.

Ayelet Shaked

#53. One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.

Hillary Clinton

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

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#55. Traveling has become such a miserable experience that no Palestinian does it, except those who absolutely have to: students attending foreign universities, patients needing care unavailable in Gaza, businesspeople attempting to pretend that their world will eventually be normal.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#56. The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category - except for the category of familiarity.

Noam Chomsky

#57. Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

Clare Short

#58. 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.

Ismail Haniyeh

#59. We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

Moshe Dayan

#60. In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#61. A Hamas terrorist, a UN aid worker and a journalist walked into a Gaza hookah bar. And no one could tell who was who.

Ralph Peters

#62. It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself

Dean Cavanagh

#63. Arafat had said that the womb of the Palestinian woman was a "biological weapon," which he could use to create Palestine state by crowding people into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Yasser Arafat

#64. the people of Lebanon' were offering a 'model' and a 'strong proof that it is not only Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem which Arab armies and peoples are capable of liberating, but - with one small decision and a bit of determination - [the whole of] Palestine too, from the river to the sea'.4

David Hirst

#65. Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other.

Richard Engel

#66. The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

Alcee Hastings

#67. It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison.

Noam Chomsky

#68. Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now he is going to leave. That is because of the 'effective armed struggle'.

Zuheir Mohsen

#69. Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.

Michael Franti

#70. I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa,
I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

Immortal Technique

#71. The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.

Richard Engel

#72. Oh, Brethren, what is the result of pride? Oh, see what humility can do? What was the need for all these sufferings? For, if from the beginning Man had humbled himself, obeyed God, and kept the commandment he would not have fallen.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#73. Give me until the end of the year and I will be able to control the chaos in Gaza, ... Now that the Israeli pullout is completed, we will be able to better deal with the problem.

Mahmoud Abbas

#74. Every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza.

Charles Krauthammer

#75. Why did you act in this way, you pitiable ones? Make a bow of repentance, recognize your fault, be sorry for your nakedness. Neither one of them could blame himself, neither of them had the least bit of humility.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#76. I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in Gaza, there would still be reluctance on the part of the Palestinian Authority to recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish secular democracy.

Alan Dershowitz

#77. But I'll tell you the truth: The world needs more peacemaker instead of warmonger.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#78. My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.

Joe Sacco

#79. I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

Helen Thomas

#80. Assembled in Gaza from Brazilian bioplastics, Turkish and Indonesian electronics, running Egyptian software and catching its time cues from an Israeli satellite, it commented on the world in ways its producers had failed to consider.
Come to salvation!

Alex Jeffers

#81. I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.

Michael Franti

#82. The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.

Daniel Pipes

#83. Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#84. The wonder of life is in the miracle of life. There is spectacle, there is awe and there is incredulity. The blunder of life is in the greediness of Man from Abel and Cain to the City of Sodom and concurrently to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.

Anthony Pan

#85. The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

Michael Ben-Ari

#86. When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

Hillary Clinton

#87. We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?

Menachem Begin

#88. The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.

Jack Schwartz

#89. The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

Theodorus Gaza

#90. Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#91. The U.S. should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first step toward a final settlement: a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.

Lee H. Hamilton

#92. In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and killed half a dozen Hamas militants. Well, that was followed by a missile exchange for a couple of weeks in both directions.

Noam Chomsky

#93. I have a coach but there's nobody at my level in Gaza. I have to do most of my training sessions on my own.

Nader Al-Masri

#94. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is going to Israel. He's going to be pretty disappointed when he finds out the Gaza Strip isn't a steak.

Jimmy Fallon

#95. Israel attacked Gaza solely in response to hundreds of rockets sent by Hamas to kill as many Israelis as possible.

Dennis Prager

#96. Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that they long ago ceased viewing this conflict with any remnant of objectivity.

Glenn Greenwald

#97. From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

Mahmoud Abbas

#98. The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.

Ayelet Shaked

#99. Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response.

Hassan Nasrallah

#100. My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

Desmond Tutu