100 myths about the Middle East by Fred Halliday

Author:Fred Halliday [Halliday, Fred]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Anthropology, General, Cultural & Social, Ethnic Studies
ISBN: 9780520247215
Google: lZJJf2fzb3oC
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005-01-15T04:10:21+00:00

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The only thing people in the Middle East understand is force.

‘Mission Accomplished.’

George W. Bush, 1 May 2003.

‘What we achieved in Gaza was something the Americans couldn’t in Vietnam – total pacification.’

Ariel Sharon, 1986, interview with David Smith, ITN Middle East correspondent, quoted in Smith, Prisoners of God, London, Quartet, 1987, p. 133.

‘The situation in Chechnya is returning to normal.’

Vladimir Putin, August 2004, two days before the Beslan terrorist confrontation and infanticide.

‘The major military operations are now over and our armed forces are in full control.’

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, 9 February 2004, in regard to the fighting in Darfur province.

On the basis of the history of the region since, let us say, 1798, this proposition would appear to have been falsified. The people who only understand force would, rather, appear to be those involved in the region from outside.

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