The feeling that he was near the conclusion of his life was an instinctive conviction, such as we have when we awaken in the dark and know at once that it is near morning; or when we are walking across the country and suddenly know that we are near the sea.

If a tree falls in the forest there are other trees listening.

One of the oldest trees on Earth, a spruce in Sweden, is more than 9,500 years old.

If we want to use forests in the battle against climate change we have to allow them to grow old.

How to break open the silence of injustice and of multi-layered oppression, a key question faced in Palestine, is a crucial dimension in building truth and effecting reconciliation.

Israel was created on 78 percent of historical Palestine.

In numbers, the Nakba was 530 Palestinian towns and villages being completely destroyed and removed from the face of the earth.

The massacre of between eighty and one hundred villagers was carried out at the end of October 1948, not in the heat of the battle but after the Israeli army had clearly emerged victorious in the war.

Was it because there were no more graves in Gaza
that you brought us to the beach to die?

It's the same killing
everywhere.
Seventy-some years later
we haven't lived a day.

A poem is a life, and a life is a poem that calls us inward. What a poem becomes in our innermost spaces is a land that cannot be owned, though it can be cared for, tended to, and loved.

• Aja Monet, foreword.

My father told me: "Anger is a luxury we cannot afford."

We need to challenge the occupation and call it as it is: "a sin against God and humanity."

• The Kairos Palestine Document. Section 4.3.

Let me repeat, hope is what we do today.

After more than seventy years of being displaced and twelve years of blockade, the tragedy in Gaza----the largest open-air prison in the world----which seems to have no end, has been created. God weeps over Gaza. God mourns the continuation of the Palestinian Nakba.

It is crucial here to emphasize that it is wrong to equate criticism of the state of Israel and Zionism with anti-Semitism. It is becoming very difficult today to have an objective conversation about the occupation and even settlements, out of fear of being labeled anti-Semite.

"Og sorgen - den var som en flokk fugler, utrolig mange av dem, som tok til vingene uten å ha noe sted å fly hen."

This book is my invitation for you to step into the other side of the wall and listen to our stories and perspective.

In 2009, I saw her rally her body against heavily armed and American-accented settlers and Police in our yard, as they claimed our land as theirs by divine decree. As if God were a real estate agent.

Alt skal bombes, tenker jeg. All infrastruktur skal ødelegges. Dette handler ikke om å bruke proporsjonale militære midler for å nedkjempe en militær motstander. Det er selve det palestinske samfunnet, infrastrukturen, spor av statsdannelse, som skal ødelegges.