“The Palestinian mother is the author of the survival story of the Palestinian people. She is the heroine, the one behind the success.”

“This isn't the Palestinian flag. Palestine isn't a country for it to have a flag. Palestine is a condition. Every Arab is a Palestinian. Every poor man who carries a gun is a Palestinian. Palestine is the condition of us all.”

“If the Palestinian people really suffered a nakba, it was largely of their own making — and that of their grand mufti.”

“Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.”

“Palestinian weddings are celebrated over coffee, but when a young man is killed his mother is held up over his grave. 'Trill out your zaghrouda [ululation], his friends say, the shabab who might die tomorrow. A mother says to me: 'Our joy-cries now only ring out in the face of death. Our world is upside down.'"Under the Gun, A Palestinian Journey - MEZZATERRA: FRAGMENTS FROM THE COMMON GROUND”

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”