"You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid."

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Source : "Rabin legacy casts long shadow over Barak, peace process" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. November 3, 1999.

Hanan Ashrawi

#War Quotes #Jerusalem Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
“Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.”
“When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.953, Random House
“I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.”
“I don't wear jewelry, as a man.”
“We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.”
“The outside world can be very tough.”
“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”

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