San Remo Conference — April 1920 Brought the European powers that had territorial interest in the redistribution of the Ottoman territory to the negotiating table. Introduced the mandate system.

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Balfour Declaration

Treaty of Sèvres

Mandate System

Turkish War of Independence

Treaty of Lausanne

Syria & Lebanon 4 dates

Iraq 6 dates

Zionism

Balfour Declaration impact in Palestine

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

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.

Washington policymakers have to understand the adverse implications of their actions on job creation, and they must reorder some of their priorities.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble.

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

He was very very excited about the idea of coming home and being with his wife and the baby.

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.

History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

For me, since I have a life wish, not a death wish, for me, I was not gambling my life. I was doing something much more beautiful. I was carrying my life across.

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar but right now I cant think of what they might be.

The gravity is the first thing which you dont think