Palestine quotes

His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.

- ArthurJames Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour
  The Balfour Declaration, made in a letter to Lord Rothschild, 2 Nov.

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

-John Edward Masefield
  'Cargoes'.

The best thing about the violence in Northern Ireland is that it's all so ancient and honorable† The Irish are in the same terrific position as the Shiites in Lebanon, the peasants in El Salvador, the blacks in America, the Jews in Palestine, the Palestinians in Israel (and everybody everywhere, if you read your history)enough barbarism has been visited on the Irish to excuse all barbarities by the Irish barbarians.

- P(atrick) J(ake) O'Rourke
  Holidays in Hell.