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“President Obama says: “Well let’s forget about the crimes that were committed, the invasion of Iraq, let’s just go on.” In others words, let’s continue the same way we’ve been proceeding. That’s the weapon of the powerful.”
― On Palestine
― On Palestine
“Englishness" as an identity is still regarded as exclusive. Englishness is not an identity that many English people regard as open to immigrants.”
― Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
― Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging
“The impulse to allow, indeed to push, Jews to settle in Palestine was motivated also by British, and Western, Islamophobia.”
― On Palestine
― On Palestine
“The human geography of Palestine as a whole was forceably transformed. The Arab character of the cities was effaced by the destruction of large sections, including the spacious park in Jaffa and community centres in Jerusalem. This transformation was driven by the desire to wipe out one nation’s history and culture and replace it with a fabricated version of another, from which all traces of the indegenous population were elided.”
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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