“Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated for 10 years and accepted difficult and humiliating agreements, and in the end didn't get anything except authority over the people, and no authority over land, or sovereignty.” PeopleShouldYearsEndsFacesDifficultForgetLandHolyAuthorityAcceptedResistanceAgreementOccupationPalestinianSovereigntyIsraeliHumiliatingIsraeli Occupation Author:Marwan Barghouti
“Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our nation to this land, [and] the needs of our national security, which demand a capability to defend our State and the lives of our citizens.” NeedsStatesNationsLandSecurityCitizensDemandAuthorityIsraelCapabilitySovereignNational SecurityHistoricTransfersGaza Author:Menachem Begin
“How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment.” MatterAtheismLandAuthorityCongressPositive AtheismBigotryRegulationCommitteesUnjustCountenanceHurtfulAstonishmentPublic Lands Book:1769-1793 Source: 1769-1793
“The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled the joystick of authority away from the seasoned pilots of the press who would land our country at the Facts International Airport.” CountryFactsLandMediaAuthorityNewsEvidencePressesBraveInternationalOur CountryPilotsAirportsBlogsNew MediaCockpit Author:Stephen Colbert
“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.” FeelsWellsWarStatesWaterReligiousPayMoralOur LivesSacrificeLandHonestDutyCitizensTaxesAuthorityOrganizationRegardFellowsBillsIncomeObligationGasElectricityDeclarationBehalfUtilityCivicsSuppliesIncome TaxCivic DutyMoral Duty Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.” GoalActingSupportIssuesGroupsLandArmsAuthorityUltimateAffairTerroristVarietyBridgesInternalsIranPalestinianBehaviourSyriaInterferenceUltimate GoalHezbollahInternal AffairsTerrorist GroupsLebanese Author:Elliott Abrams
“A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.” DoeLawMoralLandAuthorityHighestRegimesBunkersAbove The LawMoral Authority Book:If I am assassinated ... Source: If I am assassinated ...