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"Love is what makes growing up bearable." Eve Pollard
"Kraus' first law:
In life you don't get what you "deserve. "
You get what you can negotiate."
Eric Kraus
“Within a few months, we will be able to declare that we have won. Gaza will be totally destroyed. In another six months, Hamas won’t exist as a functioning entity.” Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, 5 May 2025
“We have the crazy situation in Israel in which the most dominant person in deciding strategies is Bezalel Smotrich. The entire country hates him. But he is holding up Netanyahu’s government.” Israeli author Etgar Keret
"What did my late brother offer as an alternative to Islam? Utopian war, mainly. His position was confused, and his long, consistent hostility to Israel would nowadays get him into trouble with those who admired him." Peter Hitchens on X
"Nor would a modern-day Talleyrand and Metternich have advised their masters to break off all communication channels with Vladimir Putin. They, too, would have been on the side of Ukraine, but they would not have told European leaders to define their strategic goals in terms of an open-ended commitment. They would have advocated strategic ambiguity and, especially, to set down no red lines. Red lines are what people have when they don’t have a strategy. The Talleyrand and Metternich strategy would have been to achieve a position where the war would end without either side being defeated. In terms of their diplomatic approach, theirs would have been closer to Trump’s than that of Europe’s current leaders. When Trump is a better diplomat than you, you are in trouble." Wolfgang Munchau in Unherd
“There’s two things in life I cannot stand. One of them is snobbery about anything, and the other is intentional cruelty towards others. Cruelty and snobbery are just non-starters for me.” Lady Rothschild interviewed in the Daily Telegraph
"Kraus' first law:
In life you don't get what you "deserve. "
You get what you can negotiate."
Eric Kraus
“Within a few months, we will be able to declare that we have won. Gaza will be totally destroyed. In another six months, Hamas won’t exist as a functioning entity.” Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, 5 May 2025
“We have the crazy situation in Israel in which the most dominant person in deciding strategies is Bezalel Smotrich. The entire country hates him. But he is holding up Netanyahu’s government.” Israeli author Etgar Keret
"What did my late brother offer as an alternative to Islam? Utopian war, mainly. His position was confused, and his long, consistent hostility to Israel would nowadays get him into trouble with those who admired him." Peter Hitchens on X
"Nor would a modern-day Talleyrand and Metternich have advised their masters to break off all communication channels with Vladimir Putin. They, too, would have been on the side of Ukraine, but they would not have told European leaders to define their strategic goals in terms of an open-ended commitment. They would have advocated strategic ambiguity and, especially, to set down no red lines. Red lines are what people have when they don’t have a strategy. The Talleyrand and Metternich strategy would have been to achieve a position where the war would end without either side being defeated. In terms of their diplomatic approach, theirs would have been closer to Trump’s than that of Europe’s current leaders. When Trump is a better diplomat than you, you are in trouble." Wolfgang Munchau in Unherd
"Which antisemitism, the Hitler was right one or stop murdering children one?"
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