Israel Quote by Charles Glass

“after challenging France by arming and bankrolling the Algerian revolutionaries, he had the courage to send thousands of his troops to Yemen, on the…

— Tarek Osman

“No militia or political leader is so powerful - his name never so influential - as when he is dead, enshrined on wall posters…

— Robert Fisk

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

— Walid Jumblatt

“Hezbollah is not a mammoth force, there is only so much they can do in Syria. Iranian role more critical for the regime.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single Islamic slogan.…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Here is a man who by all conventions should have been a denizen of the lower depths of society: ignored, illiterate, disfigured, limping, penniless,…

— Michael Sugich

“Middle East by the Arab Muslim caliphate, ending with Muslim fragmentation and the Iranian Buyid capture of Abbasid Baghdad, saw Muslim and Maronite establishment…

— William W. Harris

“Yet Colonel Samir Basri was the clearest vision of a protean figure if there ever was one. Indefatigably shrewd and bursting with native wit—despite…

— Matt Fulton

“the sight of militiamen sipping coffee at Starbucks, their rocket-propelled grenades resting in chairs in a distinctly Lebanese vision of globalization.”

— Anthony Shadid

“Biggest mistake Reagan ever did re: foreign policy? 1984 decision to appease Hezbollah with Lebanon withdrawal”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let me tell…

— Elliott Colla

“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again, Israel found…

— Daniel Gordis