Nothing Will Hold Back Our Struggle for Liberation (1979)
“No Arab Spring protester, however much he or she might identify with the plight of the Palestinians or decry the cruel policies of Israeli occupation (as I do), would think today to attribute all the ills of Arab polities to empty abstractions like "imperialism" and "Zionism". They understand in their bones that those phrases were tools of a language designed to prop up nasty regimes and distract people like them from the struggle for a better life.”
"The Arab Spring started in Iraq", The New York Times (April 6, 2013)
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Iranian cleric slams Arabs for negotiating with Israel http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/Iran/212319 27-04-2007.
2010s, Morsy is the Arab World's Mandela (2013)
James Dorsey, "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden", Trouw, 31 March 1977.
"Palestinians are an invented people, says Newt Gingrich" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/10/palestinians-invented-people-newt-gingrich
2010s
Interview with Time Magazine, June 2004
2000s
Arabs are in fact reacting to Zionist Jewish colonialism and its commitment to European white supremacy in Jewish guise.
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"The legacy of Jean-Paul Sartre"
[Address by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to the Knesset, Anwar, Sadat, Visit to Israel by President Sadat, Jerusalem, November 20, 1977, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/address-by-egyptian-president-anwar-sadat-to-the-knesset, October 9, 2018]