Quotations

'When asked whether her emancipated behaviour was intended to be of the feminist sort, she retorted: “Absolutely not. Though men can be beasts, women’s lib is idiotic.”' (Daily Telegraph obituary of Brigitte Bardot.) In 2018 she called actresses who commented on sexual harassment as part of the #MeToo movement "hypocritical, ridiculous, uninteresting".

“So, the whole charade of Western liberal democracy is as much of a corpse under the rubble as the tens of thousands of Palestinians.” Arundhati Roy. Gaza will be the 'Are we the bad guys?' moment for the West. (I know Julius Caesar boasted of slaughtering three million Gauls, but things change and now the West’s collective self-belief rests on not being like the Germans in World War Two.)

Mohamad Safa

@mhdksafa

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Dec 28

Netanyahu said that an Iranian nuclear strike on Israel would be like “10,000 tons of TNT falling on a country the size of New Jersey (22,610 km2).” Israel has dropped 200,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza (365 km2) - the equivalent of 20 nukes on 1.6% the size of New Jersey.

He is Lebanon's Permanent Representative to the UN.