#algeria

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#algeria #experienced #experiencing #government #israeli

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions. ↗

— Abba Eban

#declaring #earth #flat #flattened #had

Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

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From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#army #disappear #done #far #gone

In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#already #begun #certain #dream #dreamed

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#arab #arab countries #because #countries #egypt

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#algeria #beginning #capitalist #development #finally

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#french #lasted #long #long time #time

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#america #arranged #came #combatants #created

The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

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