

“How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.”
― Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
― Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

“There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.”
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“Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.”
― Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
― Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians

“The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.”
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