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"My God", she said, "how can I suppress these devil's thoughts in my heart? How can I renounced evil imaginings forever, so as peacefully to do Thy will?" And she had barely asked this question, when God answered her in her own heart: "Desire nothing for yourself; do not seek, do not worry, do no envy. The future of people and your own fate must he unknown to you; but live so as to be ready for anything...

"If you wish to colonize a land in which a people are already living," Jabotinsky wrote in 1925, "you made find a garrison for the land, or find a benefactor who will provide a garrison on your behalf...Zionism is a colonizing venture and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces."

"But Palestinian identity, much like Zionism, emerged in response to many stimuli, and at almost exactly the same time as did modern political Zionism. The threat of Zionism was only one of these stimuli, just as anti-Semitism was only one of the factors fueling Zionism. As newspapers like Filastin and al-Karmil reveal, this identity included love of country, a desire to improve society...

"...a large proportion of the Jews living in Palestine were still culturally quite similar to and lived reasonably comfortably alongside city-dwelling Muslims and Christians...In spite of marked religious distinctions between them and their neighbors, they were not foreigners, nor were they Europeans or settlers: they were, saw themselves, and were seen as Jews who were part of the indigenous Muslim-majority society"

Finally getting to this book after so long...let's get started.

Say, 'If the sea itself were ink to inscribe the words of my Lord's knowledge and wisdom; the sea would be long exhausted before the words of my Lord were spent'; Indeed, though We brought the like of it to increase it again.

Surah Al-Kahf 109

"How do rabbis justify such a mishandling of scripture? Again, it is by means of scriptural misinterpretation: the phrase "It [the Torah's commandments] is not in heaven" as found in Deuteronomy 30:12 is taken to mean that the Torah was given for human beings on earth, not angels in heaven, and therefore it is their interpretation, and theirs alone, that is authoritative."

See Baba Metzia 59a-59b Babylonian Talmud

"Look! I am sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his Temple. The messenger of the covenant, whom you look for so eagerly, is surely coming," says the Lord of Heaven's Armies. [Malachi 3:1]

About halfway through and still prefer The Remains of the Day, though not a bad book by any means. Still similar in the reminiscence writing style where the narrator details their past experiences and provides their hindsight reflections.

Daniel 2 is underrated