« By some legitimating sleight of hand made possible by sovereignty, states are never described as engaged in terrorism, whether they are killing innocent civilians by using phosphorus, poison gas, nuclear weapons, or any other means of mass destruction. Meanwhile, entire peoples can be condemned and treated as pariahs, effectively excluded from the human community, and subject to any form of inhuman treatment if this label can be successfully attached to some of them »
Rashid Khalidi, « Unhealed Wounds of World War I:
Armenia, Kurdistan, and Palestine », in Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache,
and Caroline Elkins (eds), Time for Reparations. A Global Perspective, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.