Political Violence Quotes
See {585638} for the kind of statement that led people to fear him as a dictator.
Vladimir Lenin
Stalin’s purges and suppression of potential rivals killed off mostly other communists exceeding the number of communists killed by brutal, murderous, anti-communist forces over the world.
Muslim extremist terrorism was rampant, even before Israel was established. A few of the early Zionists took the Biblical view and responded in kind using the same terrorist tactics of the Arabs. Ben Gurion argued against that. The debate has continued in Israel ever since. With relatively few exceptions the Israelis have not engaged in terrorism although the Arabs and their supporters have defined terrorism against them as Israel using modern weapons of war within the international rules of war. Also, the Arab terrorists argue that this is the only weapon that they have available that can equalize the conflict and further if it is in “defense of Islam” terrorism or any other act is allowed by the Koran. Ben Gurion also was prescient in that the assassins of some key Israelis leaders over the years were Jews who advocated terrorism against the Arabs just as most of the victims of Islamic Terrorists have been Muslims.
Some people read this part of the declaration as saying that if Muslims are in the majority and control the nation, there is no problem with violence. But if the Muslims are in the minority, they will likely be violent. Needless to say, this alarms most Western nations.
The woman was kidnapped from her home and shot.
This is one of the only times where a Palestinian politician criticized another Palestinian group for its violence and terrorism.
She resigned her political job even before West took office. Although there were many in the Tea Party crowd who were enthused by her call to violence if they could not achieve political results, there were also many who did not applaud and were clearly distressed by her statement. The Tea Party is not a classical party and it includes a wide variety of people who have very different views on most issues.
He was commenting on Lord Castlereagh's use of bribery to pass the Irish Act of Union. His observation of the immorality of politics was dramatic in that he observed that it was similar to the immorality of war.
