"It is still difficult for many to believe that a deception of such magnitude is possible. Deceptions and false declarations have ben the standard in the politics of the powerful, and certainly are in Israel's policy toward the Palestinians from the start."

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Source : Tanya Reinhart (2011). “Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

Tanya Reinhart

#Powerful Quotes #Believe Quotes #Israel Quotes

“Tolerance and compassion are qualities of fearless people.”
“Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.”
“Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.”
“Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.”
“I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.”
“One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.”
“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”
“Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.”

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