Balfour Declaration impact in Palestine — Legitimacy for Zionism Increase of Jewish immigrants : angered the Arabs, especially because the Jews were purchasing their land and refusing to employ Arab labour -> violence

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Balfour Declaration

San Remo Conference

Treaty of Sèvres

Mandate System

Turkish War of Independence

Treaty of Lausanne

Syria & Lebanon 4 dates

Iraq 6 dates

Zionism

Haganah

Palestinian riots at the Wailling Wall and Hebron

Great Arab Revolt

Widening gap between the Jewish and Arab communities in the 30s

Impact of the Great Arab Revolt on the Jewish settlers

Impact of the Great Arab Revolt on the British

Passfield white paper

Arab Executive in Palestine

Sir John-Hope-Simpson

Peel Royal Commission

British White Paper

British White Paper : “His Majesty’s Government therefore now declare unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State”

Reactions to the White Paper 1939

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

Dont let your ego get too close to your position so that if your position gets shot down your ego doesnt go with it.

For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.

I try to work out six days a week, you know, weights two days a week, and I try to run those six days, so I get good cardio.

Death keeps no calendar.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad?

Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

Dont let your history interfere with yourdestiny.

I don't understand and don't enjoy sci-fi, and it's just that if people aren't real, and they don't live in a real and recognizable society, I don't understand what to do.

The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.