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"When we speak of these horrors, inherent to Zionist ideology, we are perceived at best as passionate and at worst, angry and hateful. But in reality, we are simply reliable narrators. [...] It is not on an identitarian bassi that we must claim the authority to narrate. Rather it is because history tells us that those who have oppressed, who have monopolized and institutionalized violence, will not tell the truth..."

"I remember picking up a copy of I Shall not Hate in a bookshop [... I remember thinking. What if he did hate those who killed his daughters? What then?"

"we become thei robjects - curated into context free exhibitions, editoirzlied to wallow unintelligibly. "No legneds, noe xplanations." These words were the UN's response to a request by Edward Said to hang photograps of Palestinians in the entrance hall fo the 1983 INternational Conference on the Question of Palestine in Geneva."