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Muy interesante e ilustrativo.

La importancia de lo discursivo en la dicotomía mundial actual.

The idea of recognition and our world view changing is fascinating.

We love to experience being wrong while reading fiction (a plot twist or an unreliable narrator. ) but we don’t have the same reaction irl. Thinking through this is fascinating

Page 2 "1939 did not exist in 1939, there were just mornings when you woke up with a headache and afraid" already love this book.

this is so incredibly well written i’m in awe

"And yet the pressure is again on Palestinians to tell the human story that will educate and enlighten others and so allow for the conversion of the repentant Westerner, who might then descend onto the stage if not as a hero then perhaps as some kind of deus ex machina.”

“How many Palestinians, asked Omar Barghouti, need to die for one soldier to have their epiphany?”

Mycket on point. Medias makt, vilka styr nyhetsflödet, hur påverkar det uppfattning om konflikter. Varför måste offren hela tiden påvisa sin oskuld?

Jumping into my English major boots again and geeking tf out

"And yet the pressure is again on Palestinians to tell the human story that will educate and enlighten others and so allow for the conversion of the repentant Westerner, who might then descend onto the stage if not as a hero then perhaps as some kind of deus ex machina."

“The Palestinian struggle has gone on so long now that it is easy to feel disillusioned with the scene of recognition as a site of radical change, or indeed as a turning point at all.”

oof

The pen on this one :0 (i have to write note about writing)

"One day this war will stop, and those of us who remain will return and rebuild, and live again in these houses." ---Wael Dahdouh

"When the Egyptian writer and current political prisoner Alaa Abdel Fattah visited Gaza in 2012, he described the situation there as 'like it's been sent back in time from some grim future we haven't arrived at yet' but to which all of us are headed."

"Individual moments of recognition are repeatedly overwhelmed by the energy of a political establishment that tells the onlookers: this is not what it looks like. It's too complicated to understand. Look away."

"The big emancipatory dreams of progressive and anticolonial movements of the previous century seem to be in pieces, and some are trying to make something with these pieces, taking language from here and there to keep our movements going." painful

"International law--the law and language of human rights-- has never been applied equally."

"Ten thousand dead children is not self-defense."

"To induce a person's change of heart is different from challenging the tremendous force of collective denial"

اوایل کتاب کند میگذره و ارتباط با مضمون اصلی خیلی قوی نیست از اواسط قوت میگیره و پر تپشه

“The Palestinians in Gaza are beautiful. The way they care for each other in the face of death puts the rest of us to shame.”

“Ten thousand dead children is not self-defense.”

“How many Palestinians, asked Omar Barghouti, need to die for one soldier to have their epiphany?”

Apparently really in the mood for heavy reads rn?? It’s sad girl hour

was gonna relisten to part of this but then speech is just her doing a reading. dub

i’ve finished the book but the audio has this speech included and

the potential of art to clarify politics and give the pressing issues of our time at least some grace and certainly some power

love, makes me think abt small things like these bc i also just saw this movie

my first book for this year's asian readathon and what a start already.

… art that seeks through depicting suffering to move an audience to do something about it. having a strong reaction is not the same thing as having an understanding, she writes. and neither is it the same thing as taking an action.

but i like this idea of breaking into the awareness of other people by talking candidly among ourselves

'The Palestinians in Gaza are beautiful. The way they care for each other in the face of death puts the rest of us to shame. Wael Dahdouh, the Al Jazeera journalist who, when his family members were killed, kept on speaking to camera, stated recently with a calm and miraculous grace: “One day this war will stop, and those of us who remain will return and rebuild, and live again in these houses.”'