Ilan Pappe Professions : Historian Born : 1954 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Ilan Pappe Most Zionists dont believe that God exists but they do believe that he promised them Palestine Ilan Pappe palestine zionist believe While in the American academia the knowledge production on the Middle East in general and Syria in particular has been considerably transformed in recent years, the dissemination of these more updated views fails to reach the conventional educational system. For two main reasons: Politics can still subdue and censor views that are not endorsed ideologically, and academics have still not learned how to write openly, directly and, one should say, courageously about these issues. Ilan Pappe educational views writing Films, media, educational system and arts portray Muslims in a racist and negative way. The more interesting question is who is behind these images. Ilan Pappe educational media art Unless this [Barack Obama] American administration is willing to diverge from the conventional American policy in the Middle East by changing its basic attitudes on crucial questions, foremost of them Palestine, and support genuinely the rights of people for independence, sovereignty and identity across the board, the only "resolve" one would hope from the USA is to stay out of the Middle East for a while. Ilan Pappe usa rights attitude The worst crimes against humanity in the last half of the previous century and this century are carried out with conventional advanced weapons, upgraded daily by a greedy arms industry, super power's apathy and criminal ideologies. In the Middle East, Iran lags behind many other military powers in this respect. Ilan Pappe iran military humanity Similar Authors Abram L. Sachar historian Bryan Ward-Perkins historian Bruce Catton historian Bruce Bartlett historian Brian Crozier historian Allan Nevins historian All Authors
