| Let them hate us, so long as they fear us Component1 #9453 Israel is responding to Muslim hostility by applying the Latin principle oderint dum metuant towards its neighbours: Let them hate us, so long as they fear us. If it's not possible to win their hearts and minds, they should be taught to respect brute force. |
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- CitationsAdd new citationList by: CiterankMapLink[1] How Israel gets away with murder. Indifference to criticism of the bombing and invasion of Gaza is the result of indulgence by the West
Author: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Publication info: 11 January 2009
Cited by: David Price 10:55 AM 12 January 2009 GMT
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| Excerpt / Summary "In Muslim countries there is, of course, intense hostility to Israel, which, in return, has long since followed the Latin principle oderint dum metuant towards her neighbours: Let them hate us, so long as they fear us. Since there's no point in even trying to win their hearts and minds, they should be taught to respect brute force, a precept which, it should be admitted, has enjoyed considerable practical success." |