Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
NOAM CHOMSKYLanguage is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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