Under appreciated Julani lore - known in his youth for his good looks and Alawite romance

“The last thing I want to do is to perpetuate this process by which one distortion leads to another. I have a horror of that. I saw it happen too many times. I don’t want to see more people leave.”

“I am not asking people to give up anything. But Jewish sovereignty as an end in itself seems to me not worth the pain and the waste and the suffering it produced.”

Najla Said, daughter of Edward Said, on growing up “as a Jew” in Manhattan.

“Until the time comes when Israel assumes moral responsibility for what it has done to the Palestinian people, there can be no end to the conflict.”

Edward Said, 2000

“In April, the surgeon was taken to an incarceration facility near Jerusalem called Ofer Prison.

He died shortly after his arrival.”