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"Eagleburger suggested that the State Department might issue a statement calling Israel's occupation of West Beirut 'contrary to assurances,' at which point Arens's deputy, the thirty-three-year-old Benjamin Netanyahu, weighed in: 'I would suggest you delete this,' he said. 'Otherwise you give us no choice but to defend our credibility by setting the record straight. We'll end up in a shooting war with each other.'"
— Dec 17, 2025 08:31AM
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Griffin
is on page 185 of 319
"From the beginning of the First Intifada to the end of 1996...Israeli troops and armed settlers killed 1,422 Palestinians...294, or over 20 percent, were minors sixteen and under. One hundred and seventy-five Israelis, 86 per cent of them security personnel, were killed by Palestinians...That eight-to-one casualty ratio was typical, something one would not have known from much of the American media coverage."
— Dec 18, 2025 08:02AM
Griffin
is on page 132 of 319
"The Centerpiece of this Cold War strategy was the American attempt to prise Egypt away from the USSR...and induce it to agree to a separate peace settlement with Israel. When this American-led initiative finally succeeded...under the Carter administration, it had the effect of splitting the (nominally) unified Arab front and leaving the Palestinians...to face Israel in a much weaker position."
Nobody tell Gabriel
— Dec 16, 2025 07:06AM
Nobody tell Gabriel
Griffin
is on page 118 of 319
"Thanks in large part to SC 242, a whole new layer of forgetting...was added to the induced amnesia that obscured the colonial origins of the conflict...The...exclusive focus on the results of the 1967 war made it possible to ignore the fact that none of the underlying issues resulting from the 1948 war had been resolved in the intervening nineteen years."
"Induced amnesia"; apt description of the dominant discourse
— Dec 15, 2025 04:50PM
"Induced amnesia"; apt description of the dominant discourse
Griffin
is on page 95 of 319
"Jaffa was besieged and ceaselessly bombarded with mortars and harassed by snipers...it was systematically emptied of most of its sixty thousand Arab residents. Although Jaffa was meant to be part of the stillborn Arab state designated by the 1947 Partition Plan, no international actor attempted to stop this major violation of the UN resolution."
Israel could never have come into existence without ethnic cleansing.
— Dec 14, 2025 02:36PM
Israel could never have come into existence without ethnic cleansing.
