Terry Eagleton on Raymond Guess

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“Negotiations have to be strategic and deal with the real problems – not another interim solution. And you have to be able to put pressure on the other side, and if you can’t use violence you have to use other forms of pressure. There are ways to do that, but you have to first mobilize your people.”

“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.”

“I don’t think that war of even the most cataclysmic sort…is going to achieve the obliteration of the Palestinian people.”

From this fascinating interview with Rushdie:

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

He died shortly after his arrival.”