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October 24, 2004
Sunday
 
 
Samizdata quote of the day
Brian Micklethwait (London)  Middle East & Islamic • Slogans/quotations

If Moses had turned right instead of left, the Jews could have had the oil, and the Arabs would have got the oranges.
- Harry Hutton

Comments

Except the Arabs wouldn't have even had the Oranges. wasn't it the jews who took the desert and made it bloom?


Posted by peter at October 24, 2004 06:15 PM

I think the Arab inhabitants of Jaffa and the coast had planted the orange groves, but the other agricultural improvements came about through Zionist and then Israeli agriculture.


Posted by The Vogon at October 24, 2004 11:39 PM

It'd still be a Jewish conspiracy though.


Posted by Fred at October 25, 2004 02:48 PM

Quote for today:

"The hordes of the bien-pensant Left in the universities and the media, the sort of liberals who tolerate everything except those who disagree with them."

Gerard Baker in The Times, listing Bush's enemies.

(Via Instapundit).


Posted by Andrew at October 28, 2004 04:20 PM
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