We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America. (1990)
Arab Quotes
What we want to have in existence, what we ought to have been creating in this time is some administration with Arab institutions which we can safely leave while pulling the strings ourselves; something that won’t cost very much, which the Labour government can swallow consistent with its’ principles, but under which our economic and […]
The White House is right that Iraq is by far the most repressive country in the entire Middle East – but that’s true only if you’re a man. To see how many Arab countries are in some ways even more repressive to women, consider how an invasion might play out. If American ground troops are […]
The foreigner and Christian is not a popular person in Arabia. However friendly and informal the treatment of yourself may be, remember always that your foundations are very sandy ones.
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration […]
What was curious was the atmosphere of the rascally Syrian town, made of Moslem scoundrels, Christian thieves, and Jew moneylenders, all of types that blanch Chicago white. Yet what bores one in Chicago, intensely amused me in Damascus. They cheated me out of my eye-lids, stole my letters, lied ten times to the word, and […]
And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. It is (Britain’s) wish that you should prosper even as in the past, when your lands were fertile, when your ancestors gave to the world literature, science and art, and when Baghdad city was one of the wonders […]
Iran announced today that if their demands for the release of the hostages are not met, they will cut off our supply of surly convenience store operators.
