“This trial cannot be separated from the process of the historical struggle in Palestine that continues today between the Zionist Movement and the Palestinian people.”

It is one of the instruments of the occupation whose function is to give the cover of legal legitimacy to the crimes of the occupation.

I refuse to be released on the basis of a ‘condition for negotiations’ and I will not accept the price for my freedom to be several meters of the land of Palestine, the land that we have fought for and been imprisoned for.

This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations.

In addition to consecrating its systems and allowing the imposition of these systems on our people through force.

A struggle that centers on Palestinian land, history, civilization, culture and identity As for your judicial apparatus, which is where this court comes from.

I refuse to be free on the condition of the expansion of settlements.

The public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial.

But I too possess a will obtained from the justice of our cause and the determination of our people to reject any decision from this ‘kangaroo court’.

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times.

Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can’t a woman be like that?

To think about the historical part of the Opry and how it’s played such a part in country music.

It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.