“The climax came on May 1, when Liverpool and the Mersey were attacked for seven successive nights. Seventy-six thousand people were made homeless and three thousand killed or injured. Sixty-nine out of a hundred and forty-four berths were put out of action, and the tonnage landed for a while was cut to a quarter.”
― The Grand Alliance
― The Grand Alliance
“Yes, there is a “secret to happiness”—and it is gratitude. All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that it is being unhappy that leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that it is complaining that leads to people becoming unhappy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.”
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
― Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
“If I get this right, there is a third reason why Europe is involved here: (3) Europe is trying to atone for its colonial past by issuing dictates to a non-European country. That the same mouth utters these three reasons while not wearing a burka is a testimony to the genius of European diplomacy. I go back home and tell the cats about the three reasons why the EU is sponsoring the ex-Jew Itamar. They are stray cats and they have seen the worst, but when they hear what I’ve just told them they meow so loud that I immediately conclude they would never be diplomats. Maybe after I give them some kosher milk I should go to meet the EU’s greatest evil: settlers.”
― Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again
― Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again
“5 Broken Cameras, the Oscar-nominated film about the Bil’in protests, “shows life in one Palestinian village,” the New York Times writes in a glorifying review of this film. If you sit in New York and watch a docu-film you may believe that what you see is real. When you are here in Bil’in, and if you understand Arabic, you know better. “The Bil’in protests” is a show, a show of “Allah is with you. Kill them!” Personally, I don’t believe in “Death to the Arabs” and I don’t believe in “Death to the Jews,” even if the latter has been nominated for an Oscar.”
― Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again
― Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again
“I’m not a right-winger, Yoni. If anything, I’m a leftist who became a realist after the facts kept disappointing him. The messy history of this conflict should make anyone doubt simple-sounding solutions like ‘Just end the occupation and we’ll have peace.”
― The Last Israelis
― The Last Israelis
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