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For byfolk var fjorden ein illusjon, eit rekreasjonsområde, ein stad som knapt eksisterte før dei sette seg i bilen fredag ettermiddag, og som dei forlét igjen søndag kveld for å returnere til liv der dei resten av veka skrytte av roa og det enkle livet. Også Aud Haver skrytte, for ein fabelaktig natur dette var. Nils forklarte at dei ikkje sa natur her, dei sa skog og stein og fjell og elv og fjord, det var ting ein kunne peike på og vere nær og bry seg om, det var ikkje natur.

— Den dagen Nils Vik døde by Frode Grytten (Page 123)

In the quarter century since the Oslo agreements, the situation in Palestine and Israel has often been falsely described as a clash between two near-equals, between the state of Israel and the quasi-state of the Palestinian Authority. This depiction masks the unequal, unchanged colonial reality. The PA has no sovereignty, no jurisdiction, and no authority except that allowed it by Israel, which even controls a major part of its revenues in the form of customs duties and some taxes. Its primary function, to which much of its budget is devoted, is security, but not for its people: it is mandated by US and Israeli dictates to provide security for Israel’s settlers and occupation forces against the resistance, violent and otherwise, of other Palestinians. Since 1967, there has been one state authority in all of the territory of Mandatory Palestine: that of Israel. The creation of the PA did nothing to change that reality, rearranging the deckchairs on the Palestinian Titanic, while providing Israeli colonization and occupation with an indispensable Palestinian shield. Facing the colossus that is the Israeli state is a colonized people denied equal rights and the ability to exercise their right of national self-determination, a continuous condition since the idea of self-determination took hold globally after World War I.

— The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi