Amira Hass Quotes

Israel, Journalist
June 28, 1956

Amira Hass is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Haaretz. She is particularly recognized for her reporting on Palestinian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza, where she has also lived for a number of years.

As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.

Amira Hass
Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

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- Things
- Predict
- Surprises

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

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- Power
- Journalism
- Monitor
The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.

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- Violence
- Accept
- Uprising
I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

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- Write
- Happen
- Journalist
The thing people forget when they are looking for solutions is there is nothing final in history.

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- History
- Solutions
- Final
I think these questions about what will happen are questions for activists and about the agency of people in the course of events. This is not a question for a journalist, but for activists.

Amira Hass
Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

Amira Hass

An ideology that divides the world into those who are worth more and those who are worth less, into superior and inferior beings, does not have to reach the dimensions of the German genocide to be wrong.

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- World
- Ideology
- Divides
In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.

Amira Hass