History Is Written By Those Who Win

It's Very Hard, For Example, To Justify The Thirty-four-year Occupation Of The West Bank And Gaza. It's Very Hard To Justify 140 Israeli Settlements And Roughly 400,000 Settlers.

Power, After All, Is Not Just Military Strength. It Is The Social Power That Comes From Democracy, The Cultural Power That Comes From Freedom Of Expression And Research, The Personal Power That Entitles Every Arab Citizen To Feel That He Or She Is In Fact A Citizen, And Not Just A Sheep In Some Great Shepherd's Flock.

History Is Written By Those Who Win And Those Who Dominate.

Exile Is Strangely Compelling To Think About But Terrible To Experience. It Is The Unhealable Rift Forced Between A Human Being And A Native Place, Between The Self And Its True Home: Its Essential Sadness Can Never Be Surmounted. And While It Is True That Literature And History Contain Heroic, Romantic, Glorious, Even Triumphant Episodes In An Exile’s Life, These Are No More Than Efforts Meant To Overcome The Crippling Sorrow Of Estrangement.

These Actions Were Taken With The Support And Financing Of The United States. How Can You Say This Is Part Of U.s. Adherence To International Law And U.n. Resolutions? The Result Is A Kind Of Schizophrenic Picture Of The United States.