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Rashid Khalidi

(1948) Historian

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Rashid Khalidi is a historian.

Quick Facts About Rashid Khalidi

Born: January 1, 1948
Profession: Historian

About Rashid Khalidi

[Wikidata] Palestinian-American historian... | [Wikipedia] Rashid Ismail Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He served as editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies from 2002 until 2020, when he became co-editor with Sherene Seikaly.

Quotes by Rashid Khalidi

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

Country

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We have an even worse situation in Syria, where the United States' allies are actually supporting people who are violently opposed to…

Allies

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Donald Trump is unpredictable.

Trump

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I don't know what to say about Donald Trump.

Knows

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Hillary Clinton has had a very rough experience with Benjamin Netanyahu.

Clinton

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You want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not…

Assad

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Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.

Assad

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You cannot export revolution, progress, by force of arms.

Arms

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Russia is not going to give up easily on Syria. They've had a relationship with that country since 1955. It's very close…

Country

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As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington,…

American president

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I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.

Clinton

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Donald Trump really has authoritarian, dictatorial instincts.

Instinct

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There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's…

Absurd

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A lot of Muslims, a lot of Arab Americans, Muslim Americans were very attracted to the Republican Party - conservative social values…

Conservative

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Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.

Country

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I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.

Thinking

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“The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts…. If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt…

English language

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Hillary Clinton made no outreach to Muslim Americans or Arab Americans. So they have to insert themselves.

Clinton

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President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're…

Alliances

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I don't know what would happen in a Trump administration, as far as how he would behave.

Administration

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