A poem by Mahmoud Darwish (translation) The original version in Arabic A bus station ad purports to show a shrinking 'Palestine' in Vancouver, Canada. (photo credit: @globalpilgrim via Twitter, via timesofisrael
“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