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The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16) QUOTES

1 " Like many Vatican pronouncements, the official version of events would bear little resemblance to the truth. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

2 " Gabriel was remarried, a father, and the chief of the Office. The restorer was restored. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

3 " Barak, the Hebrew word for lightning, "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

4 " — Faremos o nosso melhor — disse antes de se dirigir rapidamente para Paris. — É a nossa obrigação. As vítimas tinham 12 anos de idade, dois rapazes e uma rapariga, todos judeus, embora os meios de comunicação franceses não tenham mencionado a religião nos primeiros relatos. Também não se preocuparam em referir que os seis atacantes eram muçulmanos, apenas que eram jovens e que viviam nos subúrbios, num banlieue a leste do centro da cidade. A descrição do ataque foi vaga ao ponto de apresentar imprecisões. De acordo com uma estação de rádio francesa, tinha ocorrido algum tipo de desentendimento no exterior de uma pastelaria. Três pessoas tinham "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

5 " There is no doubt that the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003 created the seedbed from which ISIS sprang. And there is also no doubt that the failure to leave a residual American force in Iraq in 2011, combined with the outbreak of civil war in Syria, allowed the group to flourish and spread on two sides of an increasingly meaningless border. To dismiss the group as “un-Islamic” or “not a state” is wishful thinking and, ultimately, counterproductive and dangerous. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

6 " An American air strike ended Zarqawi’s life in June 2006, and by the end of the decade al-Qaeda in Iraq had been decimated. But in 2011 two events conspired to revive its fortunes: the outbreak of civil war in Syria and the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq. Now known as ISIS, the group rose from the ashes and rushed into the power vacuum along the Syria–Iraq border. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

7 " Langley estimates that because of global warming, the south of England will one day be among the world’s largest producers of premium wine. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

8 " His civilization had flourished for thousands of years in the harsh and unforgiving land of Mesopotamia before anyone had ever heard of a place called America. And it would survive long after the great American experiment receded into history. Of this, Saladin was certain. All great empires eventually collapsed. Only Islam was forever. The "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

9 " I am a soldier of Allah, but a great admirer of Winston Churchill. And it was Churchill who said that in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

10 " peered out at its subjects like a telescreen keeping watch over Winston Smith in his flat at the Victory Mansions. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

11 " Such was life in the Islamic caliphate, bombs falling upon severed heads, in a park where children once played. It "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

12 " ISIS doesn’t crucify only because it is cruel. It crucifies because, according to the Koran, crucifixion is one of the proscribed punishments for the enemies of Islam. It crucifies because it must. We civilized Westerners find this almost impossible to comprehend. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

13 " French and Swiss villages existed side by side along a largely invisible border, but Switzerland did not wish to wipe France from the map. Nor did the Swiss beseech their sons to shed the blood of French infidels. Gradually, "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

14 " For better or worse, security was one of the few growth industries in France. Just "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

15 " You exist in this place, you sleep peacefully in this land tonight, because of people like me. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

16 " nakba, the word the Arabs used to describe the catastrophe of their flight from the land of Palestine. The "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

17 " The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.” And it is rapidly taking on many functions of a modern state, issuing its citizenry everything from driver’s permits to fishing licenses. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

18 " The invasion of Iraq turned the region into a cauldron. And when the new American president decided the time had come to withdraw, the cauldron boiled over. And then there was this folly we called the Arab Spring. Mubarak must go! Gaddafi must go! Assad must go!” He shook his head slowly. “It was madness, absolute madness. And now we are left with this. ISIS controls a swath of territory the size of the United Kingdom, right on the doorstep of Europe. Even Bin Laden would have never dared to dream of such a thing. And what does the American president tell us? ISIS is not Islamic. ISIS is the jayvee team. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

19 " suicide vest. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)

20 " In Washington, for example.” Rousseau set off along the embankment. “The invasion of Iraq turned the region into a cauldron. And when the new American president decided the time had come to withdraw, the cauldron boiled over. And then there was this folly we called the Arab Spring. Mubarak must go! Gaddafi must go! Assad must go!” He shook his head slowly. “It was madness, absolute madness. And now we are left with this. ISIS controls a swath of territory the size of the United Kingdom, right on the doorstep of Europe. Even Bin Laden would have never dared to dream of such a thing. And what does the American president tell us? ISIS is not Islamic. ISIS is the jayvee team.” He frowned. “What does this mean? Jayvee?” “I think it has something to do with basketball.” “And what does basketball have to do with a subject as serious as the rise of the caliphate?” Gabriel only smiled. “Does he truly believe this drivel, or is it an ignorantia affectata?” “A willful ignorance?” “Yes. "

― Daniel Silva , The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)