Aziz Abu Sarah > Quotes

“Tabgha is where Jesus performed the miracle of feeding thousands of his hungry followers with only a few fish and five loaves of bread. The fisherman”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“any solution will fail if it’s not based on equality”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“Hind was in Gaza City with her extended family when the area came under evacuation orders from the Israeli army. The family piled into two cars to head south to Rafah”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“What is truly naïve is imagining that fear and multigenerational trauma will lead to security”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“A 2023 study conducted by B’Tselem found that only a third of Palestinian homes have running water every day.[2] It is illegal in most areas of the West Bank to dig wells or collect rainwater”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“We know that the future of humanity is peace; the only uncertainty is how many more innocent people will suffer before we get there.”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“This country is full of relics from the past and monuments to the dead. We are a nation of fallen soldiers”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“these words”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“Most Palestinians alive today have never cast a ballot in an election. Our political leaders’ average age is over seventy”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“the occupation is the most resourced Israeli action ever taken. The amount of money and manpower being invested in the segregation”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“Our mother and father believed that land should be for cultivating life”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“The scars of our generational trauma are deep. We are so divided by fear and anger, by extremism and tribalism, that we can no longer see each other’s humanity or feel empathy for one another’s suffering.”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“But Arafat and Rabin weren’t monsters any more than they were heroes. They were powerful men with a lot of blood on their hands”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“In October 1994”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“When each side believes that the other is a threat to its existence, talk of peace can feel like a betrayal of one’s people.”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“Olive Oil Without Borders”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“It’s not only that we don’t know each other. It’s that so many of us are convinced that we know everything we need to know about each other”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“Respect existence or expect resistance.”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“Israeli authorities have full external security control”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“We know that bombs will not bring quiet”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“The violence that began on October 7 did not happen in a vacuum. For close to a century”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“Peacemaking is not for the faint of heart, and the toll it takes is steep.
Peacemakers don’t see the world through rose-colored glasses. To work for peace means facing the worst of humanity; it means enduring suffering, facing scorn, carrying humiliation, and struggling not to sink into the darkness of trauma that threatens to pull you down. Peace is a battle. True peacemaking is dangerous, thankless, and unforgiving.”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace

“a quote from a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about the mental walls of racial segregation: “I’m convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each other.”[3]”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“Many Palestinians fear that acknowledging the horror of the Holocaust is tantamount to excusing the Nakba and the occupation of our land. They have a fear of acknowledging any Jewish pain at all, regardless of whether it was caused by Nazis or by Palestinians. It’s the same for Jewish Israelis who don’t know the history of the Nakba. They fear that if they acknowledge Palestinians’ suffering, it will absolve Hamas of its horrific deeds. But this mind-set keeps us trapped in endless violence”
― Aziz Abu Sarah

“Arafat and Rabin were both career military men who were celebrated war heroes within their communities—but one side’s hero is another side’s monster.”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“History tells us that the dream of security cannot be achieved by isolation”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“In practice”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“We must stop seeing Jerusalem as a prize to be claimed and begin to see it as a sacred trust to be shared. In that shift”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“in his last public appearance”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land

“When I meet people and tell them I work in peacebuilding and conflict resolution”
― Aziz Abu Sarah, The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land