Against the Loveless World

by Susan Abulhawa

“People just can’t go around stealing other people’s countries,” she said. “It’s wrong.

Yup

“It’s true people feel hopeful. But Oslo is just for show. Something terrible is happening behind it.” “What do you mean?”

This is important considering how older ppl sy ppl are siding w palestine now bc they dont remember oslo. Maybe it was never so great ...hmm?

Edward Said was warning that this agreement was no cause for excitement; it was a trap to buy Israel more time to keep colonizing Palestine. My

Blue whales are the largest creatures ever to roam our planet, as long as thirty meters and weighing up to 173,000 kilograms. They have intricate social lives and complex languages. Hunted to near extinction. Less than a few thousand remained before whaling restrictions were introduced, but whalers continue to serve a black market, and these majestic creatures might disappear from the world.

Metaphor perhaps?

“Here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world.”

“… if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived.”