Jeremy Bowen quotes

“I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.”
-- Jeremy Bowen

Source : "Jeremy Bowen's Gaza notebook: I saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields". Article by Jeremy Bowen, www.newstatesman.com. July 22, 2014.

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“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

Source : "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.

“One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.”

“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.”

“Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.”

“Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.”

“Solemnity is the shield of idiots”

“Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it's the thing that's really preventing us from taking flight.”

“When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.”

“Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.”

“The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.”

Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”