Arundhati Roy Quotes About Palestine

• Con qué descuido el poder imperial viviseccionó civilizaciones antiguas. Palestina y Cachemira son los enconados y sangrientos regalos de la Gran Bretaña imperial al mundo moderno. Ambas son líneas de falla en los encarnizados conflictos internacionales de hoy.

  Arundhati Roy

  Ancient Civilizations, Blood, Kashmir

  Transcription of Arundhati Roy reading and Ms. Roy and Howard Zinn in conversation Lensic Performing Arts Center Santa Fe, New Mexico, www.scoop.co.nz. November 8, 2002.

• Look at the Israel-Palestine conflict, for example. If you look at a map from 1947 to now, you'll see that Israel has gobbled up almost all of Palestinian land with its illegal settlements. To talk about justice in that battle, you have to talk about those settlements. But, if you just talk about human rights, then you can say, "Oh, Hamas violates human rights," "Israel violates human rights." Ergo, both are bad.

  Arundhati Roy

  Land, Rights, Israel

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

• We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need to be put together. Otherwise people might not read the signs.

  Arundhati Roy

  Wall, Two, Iraq

  "Arundhati Roy: 'The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution'". Interview with Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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