You have to make peace with your neighbours – not their government.
Guy I interviewed today
Tag: Politics
(Deutsch) SW #88
Saturday January 12th, 2013 @ 05:01 AMOnce you retire from the service, you become a bit of a leftist.
Yaacov Peri, former chief of Shin Bet, the Israeli domestic secret service that is responsible for the Palestinian territories. Quote from the documentary “The Gatekeepers”.
(Deutsch) SW #78
Monday December 10th, 2012 @ 05:01 AMSome problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter
(Deutsch) SW #77
Sunday December 9th, 2012 @ 05:01 AMAll the players in the Middle East do [moral double bookkeeping]. They keep one set of moral books, which proclaim how righteous they are, to show the outside world, and one set of moral books, which proclaim how ruthless they are, to show each other.
Thomas Friedman, “From Beirut to Jerusalem”, Anchor Books 1990, p. 165