Top 8 Mahmoud Abbas Quotes

The [<nowiki/>Europeans] fought against these people because of their role in society, which had to do with usury, money, and so on and so forth ... [Hitler] said he fought the Jews because they were dealing with usury and money. In his view, they were engaged in sabotage, and this is why he hated them. We just want to make this point clear. This was not about Semitism and antisemitism.

Israeli and Zionist claims continue by saying that Israel made the desert bloom. As if Palestine was a desert and they made the desert bloom [...] These are lies. They continue to lie, like Goebbels, and they continue to lie until people believe their lies.

If we want to dig further into the past, yes, please, I have 50 massacres that were committed by Israel [...] Fifty massacres, 50 Holocausts, and to this day, every day, we have dead people killed by the [<nowiki/>Israeli Defence Forces], by the Israeli army.

I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.

From here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.

We have at least 12 security apparatuses that cannot be controlled by anybody.