The writer and activist of the Israeli pacifist left David Grossman on the war in Gaza: "Now, with immense pain and a broken heart, I must acknowledge what is happening before my eyes — a genocide."
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51