Mr. Aziz Abu Sarah: Thank you for having us speak here, I think I speak for the three of us, and for coming to this event, especially in this heat. I was in Jerusalem just recently and you know Jerusalem is pretty hot. But coming here, I realized it is not that bad after all. You know, in the winter here, I was looking forward to the summer, because it was a pretty horrible winter compared, at least, to Jerusalem, and now I am looking forward to the winter again.

Zein El-Amine: Good afternoon, everybody. I want to talk about this subject in a sense, in an activist sense, not in an academic sense. I want to relay some of the things I have learned about the use of creativity in struggle and also talk about some of those creative struggles that took place in the Occupied Territories, lead by Palestinians, and also talk about what is going on with artists, like filmmaker Jackie Salloum, who created the “Slingshot Hip Hop” documentary that went to [the]...

Mr. Eugene Bird: The first duty of a husband is to recognize a wife. Jerri, hold up your hand. She is my partner, but also my partner in peace because she, on our dining room table 20 years ago, started an organization called Partners for Peace. The seventeenth tour is going on this October of three women, three faiths, one shared vision. I think it was her vision that made it possible. They’ve been on CSPAN. I am very jealous because they get a lot more attention than the Council for the...

Amb. Afif Safieh: Peace is too important to be left to Mr. Netanyahu to decide upon, on what should be its contours and its content.

Transcript: When you look at these documents together...it becomes clear that South Africa was seeking to purchase nuclear armed missiles from Israel.

Suad Amiry: The bus took us, in the middle of the night, and threw us somewhere, in the dark. It was a moonless night. We were thrown, and then all of the sudden, I was like, “What do we do?”

Dr. Edmund Ghareeb (Moderator): Good afternoon. Welcome to the Palestine Center. It is a pleasure to have you all here today and especially it is a special delight for me to have an opportunity to present to you or to introduce to you these two highly skilled, highly professional journalists who have covered a very complex, very difficult conflict with a great deal of balance and I would say objectivity under very, very difficult circumstances.

Question: Hi my name is Simone Ali. I’m an intern with the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. I moved to the States about one and a half year[s] ago during the assault on Gaza. Moving from a European country [to] America, you see so much difference in how the war was covered. There is simply so much vagueness in the language used here on TV.

Dr. Marc Ellis: Thank you very much for that introduction. I see many old friends and some former students. This is my third time speaking at the Palestine Center, so I’m very glad to be back. I have many good memories of my times here.

John Mearsheimer: In other words, it will cease being a Jewish state, which will mean the end of the Zionist dream.

Dr. Ted Swedenburg: My own interest in the keffiyeh, both academic and political, developed in the course of reading and hearing stories about the 1936-39 Rebellion in Palestine, which was the subject of my book, as you heard, Memories of Revolt, originally published in 1995.

Yazid Sayigh: Both governments wish to preserve themselves, regardless of any rights or wrongs of the history of who sort of started out right or wrong.

Bill Corcoran:The situation of the children in Gaza is something that would bring you to tears when you see it.