“There is no Palestinian people.”
Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir
“There are no Bosnians per se.”
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
“Every civil building connected with Mahommedan tradition should be levelled to the ground without regard to antiquarian veneration or artistic predilection.”
British Prime Minister Palmerston’s Letter No. 9 dated 9 October 1857,to Lord Canning, Viceroy of India, Canning Papers.
“Our approach must be careful and dexterous. Our programme should be anti-religious propaganda, not anti-religious struggle. We should knock from the hands of enemies the weapon they [Muslims] use.” - Stalin, May 16, 1918.
“The practice of dominant Russia, inside the Soviet Union led to tragic consequences for non-Russian people. Some of them which once, i.e., prior to their enslavement by Tsarist generals, not only constituted one whole as a people but were also independent as states, have today been completely eradicated from the face of the earth and in most inhuman way which could be envied by Hitler himself.” - Tito at the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, 1952.
“We have the right to demand anything we like from the world. As Jews we do not owe anything to anybody, while the rest of the world owes us a great deal.”
Ariel Sharon at a speech to foreign Jewish delegates at a meeting at Gush Etzion.
“To maintain the status quo will not do. We have set up a dynamic state, bent upon creation and reform, building and expansion.” Ben-Gurion in Rebirth and Destiny of Israel, 1954.
“Phrases such as “Muslim militant” and “Islamic terrorist” appear so often in the U.S. media it is as if word processors were programmed to produce only such pairs. Muslims, now numbering about one billion, are aware of the stereotype. Do these Muslims tend to see a duplicity in U.S. Middle East policy? Do they perceive that the U.S. and Europe make the same stereotypical judgment for all Muslims, all over the world? If they are not seeing Muslims as authentic human beings, will they deem them expendable. Is this why, they ask, the Americans and the West can so easily turn a blind eye to a genocide of Muslims in Europe?” (1994)
Grace Halsell, former speech writer for U.S. President Johnson.
“I hope that in the next century we will come to terms with our abysmal ignorance of the Muslim world. Muslims aren’t a bunch of wackos and nuts. They are decent, brilliant, talented people with a great civilization and traditions of their own, including legal traditions. Americans know nothing about them. There are people in that part of the world with whom we are simply out of touch. That’s a great challenge for the next century.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, December 1999.
“Islam is the best chance the poor of the planet have for any hope of decency in their lives. It is the one revolutionary force that cares about humanity.” [1998]
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
V~V~VHe came, He saw, He conqueredV~V~V**