A Genocide Foretold Quotes

“The Lobby—USA, a four-part Al Jazeera documentary about the Israel lobby in the United States, was blocked under heavy Israeli pressure shortly before its release. A leaked copy was posted online by the Chicago-based news outlet The Electronic Intifada, the French website Orient XXI, and the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.40”
― Chris Hedges, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

“There is nothing moral about denouncing slavery, the Holocaust, or dictatorial regimes that oppose the United States. All it means is you champion the dominant narrative.”
― Chris Hedges, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

“Genocide is the core of Western colonialism. It is not unique to Israel. It is not unique to the Nazis. It is the building block of Western domination.”
― Chris Hedges, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

“The genocide says something not only about Israel, but about us, about Western civilization, about who we are as a people, where we came from and what defines us. It says that all our vaunted morality and respect for human rights is a lie. It says that people of color, especially when they are poor and vulnerable, do not count. It says their hopes, dreams, dignity, and aspirations for freedom are worthless. It says we will ensure global domination through racialized violence.”
― Chris Hedges, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

“The Palestinians want their land back. Then they will talk of peace. The Israelis want peace, but demand Palestinian land. And that, in three short sentences, is the intractable nature of this conflict.”
― Chris Hedges, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

“By the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza, it will have signed its own death sentence. Its facade of civility, its supposed vaunted respect for the rule of law and democracy, its mythical story of the courageous Israeli military and miraculous birth of the Jewish nation—which it successfully sold to its Western audiences—will lie in heaps of ash.”
― Chris Hedges, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

“This lie—that Western civilization is predicated on “values” such as respect for human rights and the rule of law—is one the Palestinians, and all those in the Global South, as well as Native and Black and Brown Americans, have known for centuries.”
― Chris Hedges, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine

“Israel is estimated to have dropped over 83,000 tons of explosives—more than all the bombs dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London during World War II combined—on Gaza between October 7, 2023, and September 22, 2024.”
― Chris Hedges, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine