November 26th, 2012 at 3:46PM
I don’t travel. If I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: What are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive. And Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. —

— Jewish writer Isaac Asimov (via exposingthetruths)

A similar argument can be made for the Armenians and for the Ararat Mountain region which many Armenians still fight for and claim was stolen by the Ottomans. 

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November 24th, 2012 at 11:01PM
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov (via ecocides)

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