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The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly…

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September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror.…
I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about…
There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly…
My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious…
The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and…
War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to…
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.
Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations,…
Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and…

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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only… — Niels Bohr
I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone. — Elayne Boosler
Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? — Anthony Bourdain
The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly… — Nick Clegg
I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's… — Andy Cohen
Scores do not reveal the most important facts about a wine. The written commentary (tasting notes) that accompanies the ratings is a… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke
It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race. — Oscar Robertson
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action… — H. A. L. Fisher
Success equals goals; all else is commentary — Brian Tracy
Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction… — Aldous Huxley
Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary. — Steven Landsburg

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