Quotes About Conflict

there is a crucial difference between a one-state solution and a binational state. In general, nation-states have been imposed with substantial violence and repression for one reason—because they seek to force varied and complex populations into a single mold.

Aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

Rashid was crushed in his wheelchair when one of Israel's huge US-supplied bulldozers demolished his home with the family inside. Thanks to prevailing moral standards, such acts are also excluded from the canon of terrorism (or worse, war crimes), by virtue of wrong agency.3

You can't have the United States opposing the peace process, because the peace process is what the United States is doing, by definition. And if anybody is opposing the United States, then they're opposing the peace process.

Contrary to the eloquent pronouncements, it is not the case that "terrorism is terrorism. There's no two ways about it." There definitely are two ways about it: theirs versus ours. And not just when it comes to terrorism.

THERE'S ALWAYS A CLASS WAR GOING ON

crime of war" is a criminal activity of which the defeated enemies, but not the victors, are guilty.

The historical roots of these differences between Europe and the United States are familiar. Centuries of conflict imposed a nation-state system in Europe, and the experience of World War II convinced Europeans that they must abandon their traditional sport of slaughtering one another

Dov Weisglass said the Gazans would remain on a diet but not to make them die of hunger. Israeli experts determined precisely how many calories a day Garzans needed for bare survival while also depriving them of medicines and other means of a decent life.

For the past 14 years more than 2 Palestinian children have been killed every day by Israeli Forces

A few days after my new state occupied my village, I became a prisoner of war rather than a citizen.

that's what faced the soldiers who were massacring each other in the trenches in the First World War. They were fighting for nothing. They were fighting for the right to destroy each other. And in that kind of circumstance no questions of justice arise

where there is no question of justice, just the question of who's going to win a struggle to the death, then I think the proper human reaction is: call it off, don't win either way, try to stop it

Even David Ben-Gurion wrote during the 1936–39 Arab uprising against the British that Arabs have legitimate anger against the Zionists. "The country is theirs because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down.

Management," according to the neorealists, means maintaining the conflict as "a low intensity confrontation"—which means the loss of local, human lives, without any damage to the mediating superpower.

Recall Bernard Fall's estimate that by April 1965, before the first North Vietnamese battalion was detected in the South, more than 160,000 "Viet Cong" had fallen "under the crushing weight of American armor, napalm, jet bombers and, finally, vomiting gases.

The Vietnam War was fought to prevent Vietnam from becoming a successful model of economic and social development for the Third World.

si quieres derribar un gobierno, armas a su ejército y, por supuesto, haces difícil que funcione el gobierno civil.

vamos a poner fin a la raza humana, o la humanidad renunciará a la guerra?».

I want him to stop seeing her. I want him to say he never really loved her. I want him to say he must have been crazy. I want her to die. I want him to die, too. I thought you said you wanted him back, said Ellis. I do, I said, but I want him back dead.

For months I'd been doing nothing but boiling eggs and teaching my child to differentiate between the cat in the hat and the fox in socks and Jonathan Rice, the undersecretary of state was actually angry at me! It's stuff like this that got us into Cambodia.

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

I didn't get fired. You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard. I punched what could loosely be called a colleague for cribbing my notes on a story and since the editor–who happened to be the asshole's uncle–took his word over mine, I quit. To write books. Is it fun? I guess it is. I bet you killed the asshole in the first one you wrote. You'd be right. Beat him to death with a shovel. Very satisfying.

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.