- "Stay in school and help care for all members of your family. It is you who will join the villagers of south Lebanon and liberate Palestine. People like you make revolutions";
- Do not become discouraged by what might appear to be a bleak period in occupied Palestine and in Lebanon's camps. Ignore those who say the Palestinian revolution belongs to the past.
- Palestine will be liberated. It is a scientific certainly that this criminal occupation will end and that all Palestinian refugees in Lebanon will be able to go back to their ancestral lands
- The splintering of the Palestinian body politic has been caused largely from external forces but increasingly with internal dimensions that must be resisted;
- It is the duty of the international community to help you secure basic rights in Lebanon until your certain return to Palestine. Iran is prepared to fulfill its duty in this regard;
"Lebanon is the focus point of the resistance and standing against occupiers and oppressors and is playing an excellent role";
"Your return to Palestine may happen sooner than you think and is only a matter of time and perhaps the coming war will achieve this";
Mohammad, a young Palestinian dentist allowed only to practice inside Shatila Camp due to Lebanon's discriminatory labor laws explained: "President Ahmadinejad has been a hero to many of us here in the camps since he first became President of Iran. Unlike most Arab leaders, he is committed to the liberation of Palestine as if he were himself a Palestinian. He encourages us and speaks like our leaders used to speak before they seem to have given up our national struggle. If fact, he is more Palestinian than many Palestinians I know. We trust him and feel we have someone to support and protect us. Like Hassan Nassrallah he has bolstered our confidence to struggle to return to Palestine. Both of these great men are like uncles to the Palestinian generation now becoming adults.
Franklin Lamb is doing research in Lebanon and can be reached at fplamb@gmail.com
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