Ruth Wisse quotes
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“The problem is the Palestinians don't recognize the legitimacy of Israel.”
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“Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.”
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“Zionism, like other self-determination movements...”
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“Women's liberation, if not the most extreme then certainly the most influential neo-Marxist movement in America, has done to the American home what communism did to the Russian economy, and most of the ruin is irreversible. By defining relations between men and women in terms of power and competition instead of reciprocity and cooperation, the movement tore apart the most basic and fragile contract in human society, the unit from which all other social institutions draw their strength.”
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Source : "A fence built for peace" by Abba Eban, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.
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“I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.”
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“Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel”
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“The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up”
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