Away Quote by Noam Chomsky

In 1982, Israel began an invasion across its northern border, seeking to root out elements of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Israeli military wreaked…

— Ronen Bergman

The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we…

— Hugo Chavez

In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end…

— Yitzhak Shamir

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very…

— Kofi Annan

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that…

— Bashar al-Assad

For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them in Lebanon,…

— Noam Chomsky

Media turned against Israel was a gradual process. And it has gotten worse over the years. I think the main development was the 1982…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

In 1982, when Alexander Haig and [Ariel] Sharon put this plan to invade the south of Lebanon and Beirut, they imagined that in two…

— Yasser Arafat

An all-out war between Lebanese, Hezbollah and Israel would be devastating for both Lebanon and Israel.

— Lloyd Austin

If the United States has to accept the U.N. resolutions, we have to generalize it across the board. We can't just pick and choose…

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this…

— Stephen Hadley

“as demanded in the famous UN Security Council Resolution 242 very shortly after the war ended. As readers probably know, a Security Council resolution…

— Ilan Pappé