Israel Quotes by Karan Mahajan

9 Israel quotes by Karan Mahajan

Karan Mahajan’s nine observations on Israel showcase his thoughtful analysis of the region's dynamics. Though the list is brief, each quote provides a clear window into his nuanced viewpoint.

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Terrorists are as torn as anyone else.

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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.

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Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

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I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way,…

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I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were…

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The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes…

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The feeling I got from my research is that the victims of bombings end up becoming as alienated from the government as…

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As for the Jewish-American question, what's funny is that I grew up in India, and the Jewish-American comparison is better for second-generation…

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When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about…

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“What has she got? Nothing but years and years of heartbreak, of being pushed physically, I am sure, into the country of her mother’s…

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It's easier to set off a bomb that kills innocent civilians in a market than it is to plot an assassination, but that obviously…

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How do you prevent attacks from becoming the very fabric of lived life in a city? Of course it's very easy to say you…

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If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's…

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I don't know what you can do if it's reported that there's been a small attack in the second- or third-largest city in country…

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