“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’.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.

It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around…. It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.

Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

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.