Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves, while simultaneously avoiding the charge of being too 'Western.' It was very noticeable among the Palestinians that the most demonstrably 'extreme' nationalists 



Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been 'sold' to me as an essentially secular and democratic one. The idea was a haven for the persecuted and the survivors, a democracy in a region where the idea was poorly understood, and a place where 

Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building 

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T.E. Lawrence  - Quotes

 If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me. 

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Bram Stoker  - Quotes

 Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. 

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Mahatma Gandhi  - Quotes

 Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home 

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Thomas Hardy  - Quotes

 If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as 'the Palestinian blend of Marshal Peta 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London Review of Books published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward painted a picture of an almost fascist America where Arab and Muslim citizens were being daily terrorized by pogroms, these being instigated by men like Paul Wolfowitz who had talked of 'ending' the regimes that sheltered Al Quaeda. Again, I could hardly credit that these sentences were being produced by a cultured person, let alone printed by a civilized publication. 

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Saddam Hussein  - Quotes

 Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland 

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Adam Grossberg  - Quotes

 Actually 

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Naomi Klein  - Quotes

 Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less' 

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Saddam Hussein  - Quotes

 The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women. 

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Margaret Atwood  - Quotes

 I could end this with a moral,

as if this were a fable about animals,

though no fables are really about animals.
 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 None could be the most perfect.

If indeed any, it is only perfect.
 

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Angele Ellis  - Quotes

 ...It is only now that memory works both ways. Which of us dreamed it - those from the country of nights five times as warm and as cold, or those who turned away and woke? 

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