We must realize that companies such as Caterpillar are profiting from oppression.

Shell is profiting from the current high oil prices, but we are all paying the price. Oil companies must be forced to face up to their wider responsibilities - on climate change, on the environment and on human rights.

The worst thing about leaving is knowing I can leave this stuff. I will never understand what it is like to be a Palestinian.

I have not heard much support for the two-state solution. Most of the Palestinians I have asked wish that they could live in a single, democratic state with equal rights for Jews and non-Jews.

This city is now an open-air prison.

I have always felt that the occupation of Palestine is an American issue, because we give Israel something like $6 billion a year from our tax money.