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"Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine"

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The neat, almost pastoral image of Muslims, Christians, and Jews “living together” is doing heavy political work before the sentence even reaches its pivot. Nasrallah opens with an implied baseline of harmony, a memory of plural coexistence that reads less like social history than like moral alibi: if things were once fine, today’s catastrophe must have been imported, not organically produced. That’s the setup for the hard turn on “But then,” a hinge word that converts complexity into intrusion.

“Violent organizations” is deliberately elastic. It names an enemy without locking him into specifics, letting listeners pour their own referents into the phrase: militias, colonial intermediaries, Zionist paramilitaries, Western-backed forces. The vagueness isn’t a flaw; it’s a coalition-building tactic. Everyone who feels dispossessed can recognize their villain while the speaker preserves strategic ambiguity.

Then comes the most charged clause: “bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.” The grammar assigns agency to the “organizations,” not to migrants or refugees as individuals. Movement becomes a logistical operation, a transfer, a project. That framing turns demographic change into an act of violence itself, sliding from condemnation of armed groups to suspicion of population arrival. It’s a narrative of displacement that treats history as an external intervention rather than a tangle of local politics, empire, war, and nationalism.

In context, this is revolutionary rhetoric engineered for legitimacy: sanctify a lost plural past, identify an outside disruptor, and cast present conflict as defensive restoration, not aggression.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Nasrallah, Hassan. (2026, January 18). Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/among-them-there-were-muslims-christians-and-jews-18895/

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Nasrallah, Hassan. "Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/among-them-there-were-muslims-christians-and-jews-18895/.

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"Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/among-them-there-were-muslims-christians-and-jews-18895/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Hassan Nasrallah (born August 31, 1960) is a Revolutionary from Lebanon.

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