On the crucial importance of getting facts right - some interesting quotes
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'Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims.” —Arnold Toynbee;

“The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members”: Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1844

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” - ‘Why We Can’t Wait’, 1963.
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.” —Abraham Lincoln

Ben 'Gurion’s Diary Entry for Jan 01, 1948 is highly informative : 'We need to be accurate about timing, place and those we hit. If we accuse a family we need to harm them without mercy, women and children included. Otherwise, this is not effective reaction - There is no need to distinguish between guilty and not guilty.'

- This is the mentality of the very first prime minister of this Zionist Enterprise towards the original inhabitants of the Holy Land whom he would destroy and displace so ruthlessly and so thereby turn the entire yawning Gulf into a Cemetery of Hope. How stupid do they think we are?

“Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they (Palestinians) defend themselves… The country (Palestine) is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.” –David Ben Gurion (Prime Minister of Israel 1949-Jan 1954, Nov 1955-1963)

'The ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel was not an unintended consequence, or fortuitous occurrence, or even a ‘miracle', as Israel's first president Chaim Weizmann later proclaimed; it was the result of long and meticulous planning.” - Ilan Pappe, Professor of Political Science at Haifa University, ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’, Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.

“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001

“Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.” : John Sheehan, S.J. -Jesuit priest

“The Israeli state is the aggressor and the occupier. The Palestinians are the victims. So who should recognize whom?” Khaled Meshal

‘Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed’ -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rabbi Schneerson: “Israel is a goyische Staat”

“When people who are honestly mistaken learn the truth, they either cease being mistaken or they cease being honest!” - Anonymous