Muqtada Al-Sader Quotes
The US-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.
Sadr, Muqtada al. Friday Sermon. Kufa Mosque, Iraq, 9 Apr. 2004. Quoted in: "U.S. Forces Clash With Shiite Militia." The Washington Post, WP Company, 10 Apr. 2004.
At that time Jews in Palestine were in the minority. The issue of how to obtain the land was hotly debated amongst Jewish groups. Jabotinsky was at one extreme—colonize and take the land just as the Arabs had done to the Jews when there was a Jewish majority. His view did not however prevail. The policy was to buy the land from individual Arabs and Jewish land up to 1948 was obtained that way. In that year the UN partitioned Palestine and 11 Arab armies attacked the new state of Israel and asked the Arab civilians to leave the area so that the Army could cleanse it of Jews. Many did not, and they or their descendants are still on their land or have sold it. The Arabs who left, were suspected of being possible collaborators or terrorists, and they have never been paid for their land or allowed to return. Compensation is still in dispute. At the same time Jews driven out of Arab countries by law and the military have never been compensated or given any right of return either.
He was not supported and a peace was negotiated with the British. De la Rey became a Senator and later was shot while trying to organize another rebellion.
the new nation of South Sudan The President was under indictment as a war criminal by the international Court in the Hague. He had difficulty understanding any other language that of the gun.
