Palestinians

Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, romanized: al-Filasṭīniyyūn) are an Arab ethnonational group native to the region of Palestine. They represent a highly homogeneous community who share one cultural and ethnic identity, speak Palestinian Arabic and share close religious, linguistic, and cultural practices and heritage with other Levantines.

• We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
  • Nelson Mandela, Address at International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People, Pretoria, South Africa, 4 December 1997

• What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
  • Yasser Arafat, as quoted in "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh in The New York Times (1 August 2010).

• Put an end to the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people that is taking place while the world stares in amazement.
  • Fidel Castro, World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, South Africa, 1 September 2001.

• The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state must be recognised by all.
  • António Guterres, Non-Aligned Movement Summit, Uganda.