#in

What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#huge #iraq #kurds #like #look

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#anything #aside #bad #europe #islamists

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#context #generalization #generalize #keep #repeating

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#attempt #behavior #exterminate #genocide #people

I can remember standing in the middle of the field after the race and seeing the American flag raised and hearing 'The Star Spangled Banner' and all the people singing it. Then I walked off the field and just kind of enjoyed the feeling. ↗

— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

#american #american flag #banner #enjoyed #feeling

Everything about the Olympics was first class, and women were treated as athletes and equals. ↗

— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

#athletes #class #equals #everything #first

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time. ↗

— Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

#fast #first #gave #happened #i

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#ages #beyond #christianity #conversion #court

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#disruptions #empires #grew #i #jewish

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#class #european #helpless #imposed #jews