On Democracies and Death Cults Quotes

“Arab and Druze population of Israel makes up around 20 percent of the country’s population and they have equal health care, housing, and voting rights as anyone else.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Muslim countries accuse Israel of “colonialism” yet the whole history of Islam has been a history of colonialism. The only reason the Islamic empire grew was what”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Anti-Semitism is always a means rather than an end; it is a measure of the contradictions yet to be resolved. It is a mirror for the failings of individuals, social structures and State systems. Tell me what you accuse the Jews of—I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“The same students who had spent recent years saying “Believe all women” followed the dictum right up until the moment that Israeli women were raped. Then, even in the face of overwhelming testimony, the slogan was “Ignore these women.” And if they didn’t care about Israeli women, what of the pretense of caring about Palestinian women?”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“At one point I came across the completely burned-out ambulance in which a dozen Israelis had hidden after escaping the Nova party and in which they imagined they might be safe. As the chief pathologist explained to me, the young people had run to the ambulance thinking no one would fire on an ambulance. “No one except Hamas,” he went on to say. Hamas fired an RPG at the ambulance and all the young people inside were killed in the explosion or the ensuing inferno.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Point out that Israel is a liberal democracy with all the benefits and complexities that that entails and you will be told that you are excusing “genocide.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Every fact can be dismissed. When it comes to Israel the difference between “equal rights” and “hanging gays from cranes” is waved away as mere Israeli PR.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“When it comes to Israel the difference between “equal rights” and “hanging gays from cranes” is waved away as mere Israeli PR.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“The fact that people like her and Western organizations such as “Queers for Palestine” can support groups that would kill them is often described as “cognitive dissonance,”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“anyone even pointing out that Israel has liberal rights in a region not known for the same was accused of diverting attention from the plight of the Palestinians.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“When anyone pointed out any virtue of Israeli democracy they were accused of diverting attention from the “occupation,” the “ethnic cleansing,” or the always-ongoing “genocide.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“When anyone pointed out any virtue of Israeli democracy they were accused of diverting attention from the “occupation,” the “ethnic cleansing,”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“it turned out that while filing these articles about the suffering of the people of Gaza he had failed to tell his readers that he was holding Israeli hostages in his own home, where they were being tortured daily.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Washah was able to present himself by day as a journalist, but in the evenings he’d get back to his job as a senior Hamas commander firing rockets at Israel. He might have gotten away with it if the IDF had not managed to find his laptop in Gaza.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Recently, he said, “a group of old women and old men” came out of a building waving a white flag. Suddenly someone came out from among them and started shooting at the soldiers. They knew that because of the civilians, the Israelis could not shoot back.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“He described a recent occasion when his unit spotted an old woman in a wheelchair alone on a street corner in the south of Gaza. From a distance members of the unit approached the elderly lady, “who looked like my grandmother.” As they approached her they were suddenly fired on by a Hamas terrorist who was lying flat on the ground underneath her wheelchair so that he could fire on the soldiers.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Among the many laws of war that Hamas blithely ignores is that members of its terror army dress as civilians. They operate in civilian areas, out of civilian buildings, and dress in civilian clothing.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Every school and kindergarten we go into we find guns in the basement. In each one we found more than ten AK-47s, machine guns, and grenades.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Those who had been inside before this latest conflict said that it was noticeable how radicalized the population had become. Copies of Mein Kampf in Arabic were one of the most common books they came across in civilian homes, as well as tracts like “How to Kill Jews.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“While Israeli families built safe rooms to protect their children from rockets, these Gazan families actually used their families to protect their rockets.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“From very early in the conflict he and his team had worked out where to search whenever they entered a civilian house. If they were looking for weapons, rockets, or tunnel entrances they no longer searched the main rooms, the kitchens, or the parents’ bedroom. They now went straight to the children’s bedrooms, since that was where tunnel entrances and weapons were generally located—including under kids’ cots.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Intifada is not a neutral term, any more than “Sieg heil” is a phrase that simply means “Hail victory.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“In city after city across the West, Jewish communities and others put up posters of the kidnapped Israelis. And in city after city, they were torn down. In almost no place outside of Israel did these posters stay up. Cities in which a poster of a missing dog would be left up with reverence seemed to have a colossal problem with allowing posters of missing Israelis to be put up in the same way. In East London, among many other places, people—often young women—jubilantly and exultantly ripped away at the posters.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Added to this is Hamas’s well-documented and long-running practice of using civilian infrastructure for military purposes. Although this is against the Geneva Conventions, Hamas has long used civilian homes, mosques, schools, and hospitals (among much else) as sites to store weaponry, create entrances to the underground tunnel network, and—it was already believed—hold Israeli hostages.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Added to this is Hamas’s well-documented and long-running practice of using civilian infrastructure for military purposes. Although this is against the Geneva Conventions, Hamas has long used civilian homes, mosques, schools, and hospitals (among much else) as sites to store weaponry, create entrances to the underground tunnel network, and—it was already believed—hold Israeli hostages. To”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Multiple witnesses as well as first responders confirmed that some of the dead and those who survived had been raped and gang-raped by the terrorists that morning. But equally—and predictably—there were already attempts to deny that any such thing had occurred. Many of the people in the West who had spent recent years saying “Believe all women” did not believe the women who said they had been violated in the Negev that morning. Since the Druze men had seen more than most that morning, I said I was sorry to have to ask this, but that the world was currently seeing real-time denial about this question. Among all the violence they saw that morning, did any of them actually see anyone being raped? There was a pause and then one of the family said, “No, I only saw them shoot a girl in the genitals.” *”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Girls do not listen to their fathers till the last minute.” Tears streamed down his face.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“We stood in the safe room where she had hidden. She had no chance to hold the door. The terrorists took her phone off her and recorded her killing. They then used her phone to post a video on her Facebook page of her lying in a pool of her own blood with her killers standing over her. All her family and friends saw it. The terrorists then set fire to the home. It took a month to identify her charred remains.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“Similar accusations have been made against eagles, bee-eater birds, and dolphins. While this might seem comical to an outsider, it is not so outlandish to anyone who understands the mindset of the region.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization

“In 2013 a kestrel was found in the eastern Turkish province of Elazig. The bird was accused of having an Israeli monitoring footband and so was condemned on suspicion of being an Israeli spy. It was taken in for examination, including X-rays, before being freed.”
― Douglas Murray, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization