"It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality."
-Alan Dershowitz
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"No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.“
-Alan Dershowitz
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"I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes."
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"Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom."
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"It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state."
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"We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs."
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"I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political."
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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-Auguste Rodin
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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-David McCullough
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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