Arabic → English transcript

Some people say, in what book is the occupation of 60%

of the Gaza Strip now, at this very moment, and the killing and

wounding of more than a quarter of a million Palestinians,

and the killing of the first, second,

and perhaps third ranks of the leaders of the Palestinian resistance,

and even the killing of the political leaders of the leaders—

in what book, as some may say, is this called a victory?

Is this not the very essence of defeat? And there must

be an acknowledgment of the reality that Israel has won in this battle with the

Palestinian resistance? By God, my brother Ahmad, the defeated

and the slaves who are used to bowing their heads and having their necks trampled,

I am not interested in going along with their narrative and their story,

and I am not interested in accepting what they say as if it were facts and as if it

were reality. I referred a little while ago to the Oslo experience, what happened?

They responded to all the international conditions, in quotation marks,

which in truth are Israeli conditions, what happened?

A few days ago he is paying to the Zionist Knesset a draft law to cancel the

Oslo Accords, and I tell you,

the issue was that the problem for Netanyahu’s government was timing,

not the principle, the timing of the law,

and a moment will come when this law is pushed to the Knesset.

Why? Because the philosophy of occupation is to end your existence,

and the philosophy of occupation is to keep trying to crush your will.

At the moment you start thinking that this will must surrender, your cause is over,

and not only your battle is over. In any case, we have not

declared that we have won yet, but we declare that we are still steadfast,

we continue on the path, we still hold on to our rights,

we are still hurting our enemy and causing him pain,

and we are still able as a people,

despite all the sacrifices, to go on, move forward, and create life.