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Umar Khan
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Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
“In its more extreme versions, populism posits that there is no objective truth at all and that everyone has “their own truth,” which they wield to vanquish rivals.”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“Absurdly, the Palestinians under occupation now had not one largely powerless authority, but two.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“Do we focus on regaining a lost patch of ancestral territory or concentrate on creating a common economic zone with the neighbors?”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“Although most Arab states are controlled by undemocratic regimes subservient to the United States and desirous of Israeli approval, Arab public opinion remains acutely sensitive to the appeal of Palestine.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
“As Edward Said put it, Zionism triumphed in part because it “won the political battle for Palestine in the international world in which ideas, representation, rhetoric and images were at issue.”
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
― The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
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