Arafat's peace offer was made in unusually theatrical circumstances, but it got essentially the same reception as all those-from either side-which had preceded it. … The gun, not the olive branch, rules in the Middle East. It always has.

Violence, then, was implicit in Zionism from the outset.

And on the strength of their false diagnosis they have with unfailing perversity proceeded to advocate remedies which simply aggravate the malady which they were supposed to cure.

President Truman played shamelessly for the Jewish vote. … I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents.

In reality, Deir Yassin was an integral part of Plan Dalet, the master-plan for the seizure of most or all of Palestine. … Zionist histories of the 'war of

On reflection after the incident, I am convinced that this was a deliberate and carefully planned assassination.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages.

The October War was like an earthquake; it marked a fundamental shift, at Israel's expense, in the Middle East balance of power.

What was true of the Palestinian cause before the Catastrophe was equally true after it: its essential impetus came from the people, not from the politicians.

The Democratic State won neither immediate nor universal acceptance from Palestinians. Some were totally opposed to the whole idea; it was an intolerable concession to the enemy.