Top Middle East Quotes
The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such negligible quantity. The chief significance of the enterprise is therefore...
Christopher Hitchens
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activism, al qaeda, antisemitism, dictatorship, freedom flotilla ii, gaza, gaza war, genocide, hamas, hezbollah
I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat's main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when A...
Christopher Hitchens
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arafat, china, interviews, iraq, israel, london, middle east, military training, palestine, plo
Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of t...
Christopher Hitchens
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communism, dflp, dogmatism, edward said, humanism, liberation, middle east, moscow, orwell, palestine