Elie Wiesel Quotes
Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
Wiesel, Elie. Advertisement. The New York Times, 11 Feb. 2015.
Nasrallah claims to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad.
Lennon was one of the Beatles, the English singing group so popular at the time. However, like so many others, he was outspoken against the Vietnam War and the treatment of the Chicago 7. The Nixon administration tried to have him deported, but failed due to adverse court hearings. However, the FBI assembled a huge file on him because of his anti administration views. Lennon had donated money to an organization organizing a Protest at the Republican National Convention and the FBI tried to argue that he was helping to foment violence. He retained his residency in the U. S. His child was born in America and he himself was assassinated in America. This particular quotation is often used by the critics and opponents of the FBI by pointing out the historically they have treated left wing extremists as dangerous but ignored right wing extremists until the 1970s but even then were much more tolerant of the latter.
Bush claimed he did not remember the conversation. His incoming National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, was also briefed about bin Laden by the Clinton anti-terrorism director, Richard Clarke. The Bush Administration ignored the warnings until bin Laden struck on 9-11
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
