Ilan Pappe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Most Zionists dont believe that God exists but they do believe that he promised them Palestine
-- Ilan Pappe

#Believe #Palestine #Zionist
Films, media, educational system and arts portray Muslims in a racist and negative way. The more interesting question is who is behind these images.
-- Ilan Pappe

#Art #Educational #Media
While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues.
-- Ilan Pappe

#Educational #Writing #Views
The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced weapons, upgraded daily by a greedy arms industry, super power's apathy and criminal ideologies. In the Middle East, Iran lags behind many other military powers in this respect.
-- Ilan Pappe

#Military #Iran #Humanity
Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its basic attitudes on crucial questions, foremost of them Palestine, and support genuinely the rights of people for independence, sovereignty and identity across the board, the only "resolve" one would hope from the USA is to stay out of the Middle East for a while.
-- Ilan Pappe

#Attitude #Usa #Rights

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.
Most Zionists dont believe that God exists but they do believe that he promised them Palestine
I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.
I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose.
I'm not in the business of saying just one thing about just one place. If you only see Palestine in my films, then I've failed because then I'm just a provincial filmmaker.
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist.

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