Quotations

“If you support the Palestinian cause in any form, you’re facilitating Jew-hate.” Headline in British newspaper The Jewish Chronicle, above a piece by Melanie Phillips. It was later changed to “The Truth of the Palestinian cause.”

When I say that Trump is far smarter than he is given credit for, people look at me like I were crazy

"Just listen to what he says!" They reply..
"No, just look at whom he is saying it to!" I pary
57% 0f the US public cannot read beyond the (American) 6th grade level - which is comic books...
Half of them believe they are about to be Raptured out of the clothes and cars, pulled up to heaven to meet their Saviour, the other half that gender is "assigned" at birth...a bit like a social security number
You want him to quote Cato the Elder to them?


Eric Krause

"The IDF really is fulfilling the public's wishes, which state: 'There are no innocents in Gaza. We'll show them,'" one reserve warrant officer explained. "People were incriminated for having bags in their hands. Guy showed up with a bag? Incriminated, terrorist. I believe they came to pick hubeiza, but... boom," tank shells were fired at him from half a mile away.

In a separate interview with The Guardian, that same officer said that at first, his attitude toward invading Gaza was, "I went there because they killed us and now we're going to kill them."

"And I found out that we're not only killing them—we're killing them, we're killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs," they added. "We're destroying their houses and pissing on their graves."

Another IDF reservist officer told BTS that he was briefed that "there is no civilian population" in the area, where Palestinians are "terrorists, all of them." Asked what the area looked like after the IDF clearing operation, the officer replied: "Hiroshima."

Article yesterday in Common Dreams ('breaking news and views for the progressive community') by Brett Wilkins

I hate to disappoint, but you don’t turn me into a quivering heap of anguish by telling me I am, or look, old. I’ve lost too many people too young to feel anything but celebratory about still being around in my sixtieth year and if you’re lucky, you’ll feel that way one day, too.

J.R. Rowling

C.R. Attlee said growing old was better than the alternative. He probably didn't coin the expression.