#terra

All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god having apparently ordered Moses to lead the Jews to one of the very few parts of the region with absolutely no oil at all), that would be bad enough. But in addition, it involved roosting on top of an ever-growing population that did not welcome the newcomers. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#israel #israeli-palestinian-conflict #jerusalem #jews #mediterranean-basin

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#medicine

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#across #around #child #complain #ever

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#actually #blocking #capture #city #defenders

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. ↗

— Bono

#colours #emotional #feelings #occupy #original

A Mediterranean city is really my culture. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#culture #mediterranean #really

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#any #coast #country #early #east

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#being #brought #i #mom #terrain

Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance. ↗

— Nya Wampaze

#bwwm #interracial-marriage #interracial-romance #education

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#artistic #atlantic #between #central #economic