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In 1929, as the stock market crashed and America lurched deeper into despair, Baker proclaimed himself a medical genius. In December, he started a print magazine, The Naked Truth, and put a photo of himself on the cover alongside the
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“For its part, the Gush Emunim regards the very idea of Arab residence in Palestine as a form of theft.”
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
“Much of what the Israelis do in the West Bank and Gaza has to do with the projection of power: to remind people every day not only that their smallest actions are subject to Israeli control, but that at any given moment--even in the middle of the night--the Israeli army can break down the doors to their homes and come in looking for suspects or suspicious possessions.”
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
“What is true of the JNF is true of Israeli law in general. More than twenty seperate Basic Laws (the closest documents Israel has to a written constitution) and other forms of legislation explicitly discriminate between Jews and non-Jews.”
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
“According to Colonel Shaul Arieli of the Israeli army reserves, the point of making life so difficult for Palestinians in the gap between the border and the wall is to push them to leave for good.”
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
“Jaffa will become a Jewish city," declared David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, a month after the city had been cleared of its Arab inhabitants; "to allow the return of the Arabs to Jaffa would be," he added, "foolish." Ben-Gurion had had it out for Jaffa long before 1948. "Jaffa's destruction, the town and the port, will happen, and it is good that it will happen," he had noted in his diary a dozen years previously; "if Jaffa goes to hell, I will not participate in its grief.”
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
― Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
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