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“The elevation of complexity over justice is part…of the effort to forge a story of Palestine told solely by the colonizer, an effort that extends to the proscribing of boycotts by American states, revocation of articles by journals, expulsion of students from universities, dismissal of news anchors by skittish networks, shooting of journalists by army snipers, and the car-bombing of novelists by spy agencies.”
— Dec 08, 2024 04:03AM
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Al Owski
is on page 231 of 232
“I know that there are a lot of writers who believe they have access to a kind of artistic magic that allows them to inhabit any community in the world and write about it as if it is their own. I think those writers overestimate the power of their talent and intelligence, and underestimate how wisdom accrues over time, among nations and peoples, across ancestry.”
— Dec 09, 2024 06:01AM
Al Owski
is on page 227 of 232
“But here, I felt something that I have always enjoyed about reporting, about seeing worlds beyond my own—I feel myself disappear. When no one is holding my hand or guiding me, and I am watching people living out their particular customs, engaged in their small conversations, I can feel myself dissolving into it all. The group spoke about politics in a manner of communal intimacy...”
— Dec 08, 2024 03:07AM
Al Owski
is on page 217 of 232
“[Benny] Morris described Palestinians as "barbarians who want to take our lives." There was but one way to constrain the threat: "Something like a cage has to be built for them. There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another."… Morris approvingly invoked a genocide. "Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians."”
— Dec 07, 2024 04:41AM
Al Owski
is on page 216 of 232
“"As long as in this territory west of the Jordan river there is only one political entity called Israel it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state." (Ehud Barak)”
— Dec 07, 2024 04:37AM
Al Owski
is on page 211 of 232
“"They took Israel away from the Arabs after the Arabs lived there for a thousand years," said South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd in 1961. "In that, I agree with them. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state."”
— Dec 07, 2024 04:34AM
Al Owski
is on page 209 of 232
“"be always on guard, carry your stick always with you this is the only way of surviving in this wolfish battle of all against all" (Jabotinsky) That was 1911. Within 40 years, the West would stand by and watch as a third of the Jewish people were consumed. I think of the fury the Shoah's survivors must have felt, the rage at their oppressors, at the bystanders...”
— Dec 07, 2024 04:30AM
Al Owski
is on page 199 of 232
“The astonishment was for me for my own ignorance, for my own incuriosity, for the limits of my sense of reparations. The betrayal was for my colleagues in journalism—betrayal for the way they reported, for the way they'd laundered open discrimination, for the voices they'd erased. And the anger was for my own past for Black Bottom, for Rosewood, for Tulsa—which I could not help but feel being evoked here.”
— Dec 05, 2024 04:28AM
Al Owski
is on page 186 of 232
“By routing the savage "Arab," by murdering his leaders, by confining him to the Bantustans of Tuba, or the reservations of Gaza, or the ghettoes of Lydd, Jewish national honor was restored in the traditional manner of Western European powers. The "mass mutation" into whiteness was advanced, and "IDF" "Mossad," and "Shin Bet" all became synonyms for righteous manly violence.”
— Dec 04, 2024 02:38PM
Al Owski
is on page 185 of 232
“Righteous violence vented on some brutish, blighted lower caste has always been the key to entry into the fraternity of Western nations.”
— Dec 03, 2024 03:40PM
Al Owski
is on page 184 of 232
“Congress passed an immigration bill in 1948 that employed geographical and time restrictions in the hopes of keeping Jewish immigration to a minimum. That same year, the United States became the first country to recognize Israeli independence. The cause of Jewish whiteness was thus advanced by keeping "them over there" and better still, over there warring against natives and savages.”
— Dec 03, 2024 05:26AM
