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"The Jews, in fact, had no historical right to the whole of Palestine. Jehovah might have promised them the land, but, except perhaps to Solomon (and offhand he couldn't say whether even Solomon had ruled over the Philistines), Jehovah had been well content with partition."

"No gratitude? After all, we put them in Palestine, and we have just beaten the Arabs for them." (Sgt. Prayle)

"Independence is the way of the world, and must be taken. And then? Then we shall be robbed by our own politicians instead of by the French, and just as ever we shall revolt. Revolt will end in war between Christian and Moslem, because it always does. War will mean alliance with the Jews against the Moslem - and the Jews, because they are worse fanatics than either, will be the only gainers." (Sheikh Wadiah)

"When the war came, it wasn't a challenge or anything to do with patriotism, it was simple: here's an escape route to get out of the mill, for surely life holds more than what this mill can offer?" -Jack Christie, Shankill man & UVF member

"We teach the past, we see further backward into time than any race before us, but we stop at the present, or, at best, we project far into the future idealized versions of ourselves. All that long way behind us we see, perhaps inevitably, through human eyes alone. We see ourselves as the culmination and the end, and if we do indeed consider our passing, we think that sunlight will go with us and the earth be dark."

"...this is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is, far more than any spatial adventure, the different epitome of the reaching out."