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It's Very Hard, For Example, To Justify The Thirty-four-year Occupation Of The West Bank And Gaza. It's Very Hard To Justify 140 Israeli Settlements And Roughly 400,000 Settlers. These Actions Were Taken With The Support And Financing Of The United States.

-Edward Said

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It's Very Hard, For Example, To Justify

Edward Said

It's Very Hard, For Example, To Justify The Thirty-four-year Occupation Of The West Bank And Gaza. It's Very Hard To Justify 140 Israeli Settlements And Roughly 400,000 Settlers. These Actions Were Taken With The Support And Financing Of The United States.

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