Sheila on the roots of terrorism:

Were some diabolical social engineer to design an environment to provide the perfect growth conditions for terrorism, the result would be something very like Sabra and Shatila.

— From “No Place To Call Home“, by Sheila Ryan, New Internationalist, July 1986.

Amusingly, this report was quoted positively in a report sponsored by the Israel Resource News Agency which was critical of UNRWA:

With prescience, Sheila Ryan wrote, in 1986, “Is it any wonder…these dispossessed people listen to the shadowy figures who preach the efficacy of bloodshed…when all else seems to have failed?”

 — From “UNRWA: A Report“, by Arlene Kushner, July 2003. (Alternate Draft)