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Palestine Studies at University of Exeter

Language: English Studies in English
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Palestine
In 1948, Palestine was lost – that blessed land, the land of the Muslims. Its inhabitants were dispersed and killed. By whom? By the evil forces of the jews.
Friday Sermon in Sudan: Palestine Is Occupied by the Offspring of jews[dead link] (May 2007)[Who?]
Palestine
It is the psychological problem of how to reconcile two powerful movements — the time-old yearning of the Jews to return to the Promised Land and to possess a home which is theirs as of right, and the Palestinian Arab desire for promotion to national status.
Great Britain and Palestine: 1915 - 1939, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1937
Palestine
Both the Germans and the Zionists wanted as many Jews as possible to move to Palestine. The Germans preferred to have them out of Western Europe, and the Zionists themselves wanted the Jews in Palestine to outnumber the Arabs as quickly as possible. (...) In both cases, the purpose was a kind of 'ethnic cleansing', that is, a violent change in the ratio of ethnic groups in the population.
Slavoj Žižek, discussing a meeting between Feivel Polkes and Adolf Eichmann in Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, p. 59, ISBN 1844675408
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