Ruth Wisse Quotes

Professor of Yiddish Literature, Harvard University emerita

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3 Quotes by Ruth Wisse

1. This is a coalition I call the coalition of grievance and blame. Everyone who wants to blame others. The Palestinians came and they said 'we are the most oppressed people in the world' and because they were something specific, and because they could point at Israel, Israel, Israel: this became the flag carriers. It's so obscene. It's so grotesque.

2. The Arabs have always required a refugee problem, for unless the Palestinians were visibly there to be “resettled” in their former homes, there would be no basis for protesting Israel’s existence

3. The obvious key to the success of Arab strategy is the presence, in the disputed territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the Jordan River, of Palestinian Arabs, people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.