Top 13 Mourid Barghouti Quotes of All time - Quotes.Pub

Here you will find all the famous Mourid Barghouti quotes. There are more than 13 quotes in our Mourid Barghouti quotes collection. We have collected all of them and made stunning posters out of those quotes so you can use Mourid Barghouti quotes wallpapers and images to share on the various social media platforms. You can download the quotes posters in various different sizes for free.

Statistics are meaningless. Discussions and speeches and proposals and condemnations and reasons and maps for negotiation and the excuses of negotiators and all we have heard and read about the settlements, all this is worth nothing.

Who lives in this settlement? Where were they before they were brought here. Do their kids play football behind those walls? Do their men and women make love behind those windows? So they make love with guns strapped to their sides? Do they hang loaded machine guns ready on their bedroom walls?

Why does everyone in the world think that his particular situation is ‘different’? Does a man want to be different even in loss? is it an egoism that we cannot shake free of?

Pave the sea or hit your head against the wall if you wish.

Is it not odd that when we arrive at a new place living its new moment we start to look for our old things in it? Is there something new for strangers? Or do they go around the world looking for stains of the past?

And now I pass from my exile to their... homeland? My homeland? The West Bank and Gaza? The Occupied Territories? The Areas? Judea and Samaria? The Autonomous Government? Israel? Palestine? Is there any other country in the world that so perplexes you with its names?

I found myself retreating to there; to that hidden place inside each one of us, the place of silence and introspection. A dark private space in which I take refuge when the outside world becomes absurd or incomprehensible.

Palestine at this moment is not the golden map hanging on a golden chain adorning the throats of women exile. I used to wonder – everything I saw that map encircling their – if Canadian women, or Norwegians, or Chinese carried their maps around their necks as our women do.

As the days passed I began to understand. You do not rejoice immediately when life presses a button that turns the wheel of events in your favor. You do not arrive unchanged at the moment of joy dreamt of for so long across the years. The years are on your shoulders. They do their slow work without ringing any bells for you.

The stranger is the person who renews his residence permit... He is the one whose relationship with places is distorted, he gets attached to them and repulsed by them at the same time. He is the one who cannot tell his story in a continuous narrative and lives hours in every single moment... He loves the ringing of the phone, yet fears it... He lives essentially in that hidden silent spot with himself.

Occupation prevents you from managing your affairs in your own way. It interferes in every aspect of life and death; it interferes with longing and anger and desire and walking in the street. It interferes with going anywhere and coming back, with going to market, the emergency hospital, the beach, the bedroom, or a distant capital.

Behind me the world, ahead of me my world.

The fish, Even in the fisherman’s net, Still carries, The smell of the sea.