"It was not the right-wing Russians or the gun-toting settlers who carried out the Nakba. The Nakba is the legacy of Zionism's putatively socialist wing. It was the grandfathers and mothers of the "enlightened public" of today's Israel who literally drove tens of thousands of indigenous Palestinians into the sea in 1947-48 all along the Mediterranean coast, or who marched them at gunpoint to Ramallah."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Max Blumenthal

#Mother Quotes #Gun Quotes #Israel Quotes

“The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.”
“Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.”

Source : Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.”
“Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.”
“Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.”
“Shoot first and never miss.”
“I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.”
“I'm not a happy-ending person. I want to know what happens once Cinderella rides off with Prince Charming.”

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