Top Arabs Quotes
Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been...
Christopher Hitchens
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ancestry, antisemitism, arabs, armageddon, arthur balfour, bedouin, bolshevism, britain, christianity, colonialism
Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a table at La Tomate in Washington not two years ago—and lands on a bystan...
Christopher Hitchens
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analogies, arabs, colonialism, crusades, europe, history, injustice, israel, israeli palestinian conflict, jaffa
Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward painted a picture of...
Christopher Hitchens
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al quaeda, arabs, edward said, fascism, friendship, lrb, muslims, paul wolfowitz, pogroms, politics