Palestine Quotes

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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
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Thomas Fuller (A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof: With the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon)
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You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim onceโ€”there has to be a limit
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Edward W. Said
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backwardโ€”reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
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Michael Crichton
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We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.
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Edward W. Said
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If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple.
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Tariq Ali
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ุจุงู„ุฏู… ู†ูƒุชุจ ู„ูู„ุณุทูŠู† We write with the blood for Palestine
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ุบุณุงู† ูƒู†ูุงู†ูŠ
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The fish, Even in the fisherman's net, Still carries, The smell of the sea.
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ู…ุฑูŠุฏ ุงู„ุจุฑุบูˆุซูŠ
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Bertrand Russell
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Because apparently One Directionโ€™s superpower is instant friendship. Someone should ship them to the Middle East so they can get to work on that Israel-Palestine thing.
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Emma Chase (Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2))
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I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
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Edward W. Said (Palestine)
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There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with.
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Refaat Alareer (Gaza Writes Back)
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Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.
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Dave Barry (Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far))
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Actuallyโ€”and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortableโ€”some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist sloganโ€”'a land without a people for a people without a land'โ€”disclosed its own negation when I saw the densely populated Arab towns dwelling sullenly under Jewish tutelage. You want irony? How about Jews becoming colonizers at just the moment when other Europeans had given up on the idea?
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Christopher Hitchens (Hitch 22: A Memoir)
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Maybe niceness is the wrong metric, I said. Of course it's really about power, Bobbi agreed. But it's harder to work out who has the power, so instead we rely on 'niceness' as a kind of stand-in. I mean this is an issue in public discourse. We end up asking like, is Israel 'nicer' than Palestine.
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Sally Rooney (Conversations with Friends)
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For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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ู„ูŠุณ ูˆุทู†ูŠ ุฏุงุฆู…ุงู‹ ุนู„ู‰ ุญู‚. ูˆู„ูƒู†ู†ูŠ ู„ุง ุงุณุชุทูŠุน ุงู† ุงู…ุงุฑุณ ุญู‚ุงู‹ ุญู‚ูŠู‚ูŠุงู‹ ุงู„ุง ููŠ ูˆุทู†ูŠ .
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Mahmoud Darwish
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Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.
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John Gunther (Inside Asia)
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In many ways you can say that the prison serves as an institution that consolidates the stateโ€™s inability and refusal to address the most pressing social problems of this era.
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Angela Y. Davis (Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement)
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Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.
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Refaat Alareer (Gaza Writes Back)
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I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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ูƒูŠู ูŠู…ูƒู† ุฃู„ุง ูŠุณุชุทูŠุน ุงู„ุฅู†ุณุงู† ุฃู† ูŠุณูŠุฑ ุฅู„ู‰ ู…ู„ูƒู‡ ุงู„ุฎุงุตุŸ ุฃู† ูŠุฒูˆุฑ ู‚ุจุฑ ุฒูˆุฌุชู‡ุŸ ุฃู† ูŠุฃูƒู„ ุซู…ุงุฑ ุฃุฑุจุนูŠู† ุฌูŠู„ุงู‹ ู…ู† ูƒุฏุญ ุฃุณู„ุงูู‡ ู…ู† ุฏูˆู† ุฃู† ูŠุนุงู‚ุจ ุจุงู„ู…ูˆุช ุฑู…ูŠุงู‹ ุจุงู„ุฑุตุงุตุŸ ุนู„ู‰ ู†ุญูˆ ู…ุงุŒ ู„ู… ูŠูƒู† ู‡ุฐุง ุงู„ุณุคุงู„ ุงู„ูุฌู‘ ุงู„ู‚ุงุณูŠ ู‚ุฏ ู†ูุฐ ุณุงุจู‚ุงู‹ ุฅู„ูŠ ูˆุนูŠ ุงู„ู„ุงุฌุฆูŠู† ุงู„ุฐูŠู† ุดูˆุดุชู‡ู… ุฃุจุฏูŠุฉ ุงู„ุงู†ุชุธุงุฑุŒ ู…ุนู„ู‚ูŠู† ุขู…ุงู„ู‡ู… ุนู„ู‰ ู‚ุฑุงุฑุงุช ุฏูˆู„ูŠุฉ ู†ุธุฑูŠุฉ
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters andโ€”most unforgivablyโ€”increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.
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Norman G. Finkelstein (Goldstone Recants: Richard Goldstone Renews Israel's License to Kill)
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Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners.
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Angela Y. Davis (Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement)
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I heard you in the other room asking your mother, 'Mama, am I a Palestinian?' When she answered 'Yes' a heavy silence fell on the whole house. It was as if something hanging over our heads had fallen, its noise exploding, then - silence. Afterwards...I heard you crying. I could not move. There was something bigger than my awareness being born in the other room through your bewildered sobbing. It was as if a blessed scalpel was cutting up your chest and putting there the heart that belongs to you...I was unable to move to see what was happening in the other room. I knew, however, that a distant homeland was being born again: hills, olive groves, dead people, torn banners and folded ones, all cutting their way into a future of flesh and blood and being born in the heart of another child...Do you believe that man grows? No, he is born suddenly - a word, a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood onto the ruggedness of the road.
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ุบุณุงู† ูƒู†ูุงู†ูŠ
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Peace can happen in 24 hours....just like war can happen in 24 hours.
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Sari Nusseibeh
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ุฃูŽูŠูŽู…ู’ุฑุถู ุญูู„ู’ู…ูŒ ูƒูŽู…ูŽุง ูŠูŽู…ู’ุฑูŽุถู ุงู„ุญูŽุงู„ูู…ููˆู†ุŸ ุฎูŽุฑูŠููŒ ุฎุฑูŠููŒ. ุฃูŠููˆู„ูŽุฏู ุดูŽุนู’ุจูŒ ุนูŽู„ูŽู‰ ู…ูู‚ู’ุตู„ูŽู‡ู’ุ› ูŠุญูู‚ูู‘ ู„ูŽู†ูŽุง ุฃู†ู’ ู†ูŽู…ููˆุชูŽ ูƒู…ูŽุง ู†ูŽุดู’ุชูŽู‡ููŠ ุฃู†ู’ ู†ูŽู…ู’ูˆุชุŒ ู„ูุชูŽุฎู’ุชูŽุจูู‰ุก ุงู„ุฃุฑุถู ููŠ ุณูู†ู’ุจูู„ูŽู‡ู’
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Mahmoud Darwish (ูˆุฑุฏ ุฃู‚ู„)
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While the Zionists try to make the rest of the World believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn't even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organisation for their international world swindler, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks. It is a sign of their rising confidence and sense of security that at a time when one section is still playing the German, French-man, or Englishman, the other with open effrontery comes out as the Jewish race.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house.
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Saddam Hussein
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In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
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George Clooney
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ูŠุง ู…ูˆุทู†ุงู‹ ููŠ ุซุฑุงู‡ ุบุงุจ ุณุงุฏุชู‡* ู„ูˆูƒุงู† ูŠุฎุฌู„ ู…ู† ุจุงุนูˆูƒ ู…ุง ุจุงุนูˆุง
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ุฅุจุฑุงู‡ูŠู… ุทูˆู‚ุงู† (ุงู„ุฃุนู…ุงู„ ุงู„ุดุนุฑูŠุฉ ุงู„ูƒุงู…ู„ุฉ: ุฅุจุฑุงู‡ูŠู… ุทูˆู‚ุงู†)
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What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?
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Joe Sacco (Palestine)
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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Angela Y. Davis (Freedom Is a Constant Struggle)
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I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland..
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Mahmoud Darwish
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Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And often we discover that those other stories are actually our own stories.
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Angela Y. Davis (Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement)
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God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egypt. What He did give Joseph were eleven jealous brothers, the attention of a very loose and vengeful woman, the ability to do the service of interpreting dreams and managing other people's affairs and the grace to do that faithfully wherever he was.
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Rich Mullins
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Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation. "Never let them know they hurt you" was their creed
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conicts of today.
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Arundhati Roy
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Palestine. For most of us, the word brings to mind a series of confused images and disjointed associations-massacres, refugee camps, UN resolutions, settlements, terrorist attacks, war, occupation, checkered kouffiyehs and suicide bombers, a seemingly endless cycle of death and destruction.
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Radwa Ashour
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To Alef, the letter that begins the alphabets of both Arabic and Hebrew- two Semitic languages, sisters for centuries. May we find the language that takes us to the only home there is - one another's hearts. ... Alef knows That a thread Of a story Stitches together A wound.
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Ibtisam Barakat (Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood)
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European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.
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Noam Chomsky (On Palestine)
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Some of the world's blackest holes are out in the open for anyone to see....
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Joe Sacco (Palestine)
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ู…ุง ุฒู„ู†ุง ู‡ู†ุง ุŒ ุญุชู‰ ู„ูˆ ุงู†ูุตูŽู„ูŽ ุงู„ุฒู…ุงู†ู ุนู† ุงู„ู…ูƒุงู†
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Mahmoud Darwish
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Man, not the tank, shall prevail.
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Adania Shibli (Minor Detail)
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We were existing somewhere between life and death, with neither accepting us fully.
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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ูู„ุณุทูŠู† ุจู„ุงุฏู†ุง"ุŒ ูŠุฑุฏุฏู‡ุง ุฃุทูุงู„ู†ุงุŒ ุฑุจู…ุง ุฏูˆู† ูˆุนูŠ ู„ูƒู†ู‡ุงุŒ ุจู„ ุจุงู†ุฏูุงุน ุนุงุทููŠ ู‡ูˆ ุขูุฉ ุงู„ูƒุจูŠุฑ ู‚ุจู„ ุงู„ุตุบูŠุฑุŒ ูŠู†ู‚ู„ู‡ ุงู„ุขุจุงุก ู„ู„ุฃุจู†ุงุก. ุซู… ู…ุงุฐุงุŸ ู…ุง ู‡ูŠ ูู„ุณุทูŠู† ูˆู…ู† ู†ุญู†ุŸ ุนุฏุง ุชู„ูƒ ุงู„ุฎุฑุงุฆุท ุงู„ุตู…ุงุก ุงู„ุชูŠ ุชุฒูŠู† ุฃุนู†ุงู‚ ุงู„ุตุจุงูŠุงุŒ ูˆุงู„ุชูŠ ูŠุชูู†ู† ุงู„ุญุฑููŠูˆู† ููŠ "ุณูƒูู‘ู‡ุง" ุชุงุฑุฉ ู…ู† ุฐู‡ุจ ูˆุฃุฎุฑู‰ ู…ู† ูุถุฉุŒ ูˆุญูŠู†ุง ู…ู† ู…ุนุงุฏู† ุงู‚ู„ ุบู„ุงุกู‹. ู…ูƒุชููŠู† "ุจุณุญุฑ ุงู„ุฑู…ุฒ" ูˆุฃู„ูˆุงู† ุงู„ุนู„ู… ุงู„ุฃุฑุจุนุฉ.
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ุฃู†ูˆุฑ ุญุงู…ุฏ (ูŠุงูุง ุชุนุฏ ู‚ู‡ูˆุฉ ุงู„ุตุจุงุญ)
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he says I am from there, I am from here, but I am neither there nor here. I have two names which meet and partโ€ฆ I have two languages, but I have long forgottenโ€” which is the language of my dreams
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Mahmoud Darwish's farwell to Edward Said
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In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.
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Christopher Hitchens (Hitch 22: A Memoir)
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.. ุฃู‚ุณู…ุช ุจุงู„ู„ู‡ ุฃู† ุฃุญุฑุฑ ูู„ุณุทูŠู† ูƒู„ ูู„ุณุทูŠู†ุŒ ุฃู‚ุณู… ุฃู† ุฃุฌุฑุฏ ุงู„ุตู‡ุงูŠู†ุฉ ู…ู†ู‡ุง ุŒ ูˆุฃู‚ุณู… ุฃู† ุฃุฌุฑุฏ ุฃุดุจุงู‡ ุฑุฌุงู„ ุฃูˆุณู„ูˆ ู…ู†ู‡ุง ุŒ ูˆูƒุฑุฑุช ุฐู„ูƒ ู…ุฎุงุทุจุงู‹ ุงู„ุจุญุฑ ..
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ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู„ู‡ ุบุงู„ุจ ุงู„ุจุฑุบูˆุซูŠ (ุฃู…ูŠุฑ ุงู„ุธู„: ู…ู‡ู†ุฏุณ ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ุทุฑูŠู‚)
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I think it was smart that youโ€™re wary of using the word โ€œterrorism,โ€ and if you talk about the cycle of violence, or โ€œan eye for an eye,โ€ you could be perpetuating the idea that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a balanced conflict, instead of a largely unarmed people against the fourth most powerful military in the world.
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Rachel Corrie (My Name is Rachel Corrie)
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ุงุณุชุบุฑุจ ูƒูŠู ุชุชุญูˆู„ ุงู„ุฃุดูŠุงุก ุงู„ุถุนูŠูุฉุŒ ุญุชู‰ ุงู„ูƒู„ู…ุงุช ุฅู„ู‰ ุฃุดูŠุงุก ุดุฑูŠุฑุฉุŒ ู…ู† ุฏูˆู† ุฑุญู…ุฉุŒ ู…ู† ุฃุฌู„ ุจู„ูˆุบ ุงู„ุณู„ุทุฉ ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ุฑุบู… ู…ู† ุงู„ู…ู†ุทู‚ ูˆุงู„ุชุงุฑูŠุฎ.
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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ูˆู‡ู„ ู‡ู†ุงูƒ ุญุฒู† ุนู„ู‰ ุถูŠุงุน ุงู„ูุชุงุช ุจุนุฏู…ุง ุณูุฑู‚ ุงู„ุฑุบูŠูู!
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Abdullah Abu Snaineh - ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู„ู‡ ุฃุจูˆ ุณู†ูŠู†ุฉ (ูˆุดุงุญ)
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After all, in the final analysis, man is a cause.
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Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories)
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Not all evils can be rectified, but ongoing evils surely should stop.
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Noam Chomsky (On Palestine)
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The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of the globe and entered the rudest. The difference is so profound that you're left wondering when the mutation in Semitic blood occurred, as though God parted the Red Sea and said: "Okay, you rude ones, keep wandering toward the Promised Land. The rest of you can stay here and rot in the desert, saying 'welcome, most welcome' and drowning each other in tea until the end of time.
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Tony Horwitz (Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia)
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Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan.
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Raja Shehadeh (Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape)
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ูˆู…ุน ุฐู„ูƒุŒ ูˆุฑุบู… ุงู„ุฃู„ู…ุŒ ูุฅู†ู†ูŠ ุฃุญู„ู… ุจุฅู†ุฌุงุจ ุทูู„ุŒ ูุงู„ุทูู„ ูŠุนุทูŠูƒ ุดุนูˆุฑุงู‹ ุจุฃู†ูƒ ู…ูˆุฌูˆุฏ ููŠ ุงู„ุขุฎุฑูŠู†ุŒ ูˆุฃู†ูƒ ู„ู† ุชู…ูˆุช
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ุงู„ูŠุงุณ ุฎูˆุฑู‰ (ุจุงุจ ุงู„ุดู…ุณ)
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So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?
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Christopher Hitchens
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ู†ุญู† ู„ู… ู†ุจูƒ ุณุงุนุฉ ุงู„ูˆุฏุงุน! ูู„ุฏูŠู†ุง ู„ู… ูŠูƒู† ูˆู‚ุช ูˆู„ุง ุฏู…ุน ูˆู„ู… ูŠูƒู† ูˆุฏุงุน! ู†ุญู† ู„ู… ู†ุฏุฑูƒ ู„ุญุธุฉ ุงู„ูˆุฏุงุน ุฃู†ู‡ ุงู„ูˆุฏุงุน ูุฃู†ู‰ ู„ู†ุง ุงู„ุจูƒุงุก! ุทู‡ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุนู„ูŠ 1988, ู„ุงุฌุฆ ู…ู† ู‚ุฑูŠุฉ ุตููˆุฑูŠุฉ
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ุฅูŠู„ุงู† ุจุงุจู‡ (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine)
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In order for me to write poetry that isnโ€™t political I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent.
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Marwan Makhoul
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle. What
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Angela Y. Davis (Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement)
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Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning buildingโ€”as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my face over a table at La Tomate in Washington not two years agoโ€”and lands on a bystander in the street below. Now, make the burning building be Europe, and the luckless man underneath be the Palestinian Arabs. Is this a historical injustice? Has the man below been made a victim, with infinite cause of complaint and indefinite justification for violent retaliation? My own reply would be a provisional 'no,' but only on these conditions. The man leaping from the burning building must still make such restitution as he can to the man who broke his fall, and must not pretend that he never even landed on him. And he must base his case on the singularity and uniqueness of the original leap. It can't, in other words, be 'leap, leap, leap' for four generations and more. The people underneath cannot be expected to tolerate leaping on this scale and of this duration, if you catch my drift. In Palestine, tread softly, for you tread on their dreams. And do not tell the Palestinians that they were never fallen upon and bruised in the first place. Do not shame yourself with the cheap lie that they were told by their leaders to run away. Also, stop saying that nobody knew how to cultivate oranges in Jaffa until the Jews showed them how. 'Making the desert bloom'โ€”one of Yvonne's stock phrasesโ€”makes desert dwellers out of people who were the agricultural superiors of the Crusaders.
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Christopher Hitchens (Hitch 22: A Memoir)
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ูˆู„ุง ุนุฌุจ ุฃู† ุฃุถุญูƒุŒ ูุดุฑ ุงู„ุจู„ุงูŠุง ู…ุง ูŠุถุญูƒุŒ ูˆุงู„ุถุญูƒ ุถุฑูˆุฑูŠ ู„ู†ุงุŒ ูู‡ูˆ ููŠุชุงู…ูŠู† ู„ู…ูˆุงุตู„ุฉ ุงู„ุญูŠุงุฉ. ูˆู‚ุฏ ูŠุถุญูƒ ุงู„ุฅู†ุณุงู† ููŠ ุฃูˆุฌ ู…ุฃุณุงุชู‡ุŒ ููƒูŠู ุฅุฐุง ูƒุงู†ุช ุญูŠุงุชู†ุง ู…ุฃุณุงุฉ ุฃุจุฏูŠุฉุŸ!.
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ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุนู„ูŠ ุทู‡ (ูˆูŠูƒูˆู† ููŠ ุงู„ุฒู…ู† ุงู„ุขุชูŠ)
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Believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer, the Son of God, who came to earth and walked the dusty roads of Palestine-the Son of God-to teach us the way of truth and light and salvation, and who, in one great and glorious act offered an atonement for each of us. He opened the way of salvation and exaltation for each of us, under which we may go forward in the Church and kingdom of God. Be not faithless, but believe in the great and wonderful and marvelous blessings of the Atonement
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Gordon B. Hinckley
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Neoliberal ideology drives us to focus on individuals, ourselves, individual victims, individual perpetrators. But how is it possible to solve the massive problem of racist state violence by calling upon individual police officers to bear the burden of that history and to assume that by prosecuting them, by exacting our revenge on them, we would have somehow made progress in eradicating racism?
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Angela Y. Davis (Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement)
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The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex storyโ€”hard to understand and even harder to solve. Indeed, the story of Palestine has been told before: European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.
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Noam Chomsky (On Palestine)
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ูˆุฃู†ุง ุฃุถุฑุณ ุจุฃุณู†ุงู†ูŠ ู‚ู‡ุฑุงู‹ ุŒ ูˆุฃุฎุฑุณ ุฌู‡ุฑุงู‹ ุนู† ู‚ูˆู… ู„ุง ูŠู†ููƒูˆู† ูŠุจู„ุทูˆู† ุจุญุฑุงู‹ ููŠู…ุง ุชุฌุฑูŠ ุฏู…ุงุคู‡ู… ู†ู‡ุฑุงู‹ุŒ ูˆู„ุง ูŠุถู…ุฑูˆู† ุฅู„ุง ู„ุฃู†ูุณู‡ู… ุดุฑุงู‹ุŒ ุฌูˆุงู‹ ูˆุจุญุฑุงู‹ ูˆุจุฑุงู‹.
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ุฅู…ูŠู„ ุญุจูŠุจูŠ (ุฅุฎุทูŠุฉ)
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How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others inside us. We are all moved by injustice and discrimination. We are all, inside, concerned human beings. We all want to give more than to receive. We all want to live in a world where solidarity and companionship are more important values than individualism and selfishness. We all want to share beautiful things; experience joy, laughter, love; and experiment, together.
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Noam Chomsky (On Palestine)
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I am the saint at prayer on the terrace like the peaceful beasts that graze down to the sea of Palestine. I am the scholar of the dark armchair. Branches and rain hurl themselves at the windows of my library. I am the pedestrian of the highroad by way of the dwarf woods; the roar of the sluices drowns my steps. I can see for a long time the melancholy wash of the setting sun. I might well be the child abandoned on the jetty on its way to the high seas, the little farm boy following the lane, its forehead touching the sky. The paths are rough. The hillocks are covered with broom. The air is motionless. How far away are the birds and the springs! It can only be the end of the world ahead.
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Arthur Rimbaud
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...the solution to the Jewish question merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing the number of the stateless and rightless by another 700,000 to 800,000 people.
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Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)
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Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician. Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY, or any open street near to the gates of snipers tower. It means that you cannot trust the future or have faith that the past will always be there. Occupation means you live out your live under military rule, and the constant threat of death, a quick death from a snipers bullet or a rocket attack from an M16. A crushing, suffocating death, a slow bleeding death in an ambulance stopped for hours at a checkpoint. A dark death, at a torture table in an Israeli prison: just a random arbitrary death. A cold calculated death: from a curable disease. A thousand small deaths while you watch your family dying around you. Occupation means that every day you die, and the world watches in silence. As if your death was nothing, as if you were a stone falling in the earth, water falling over water. And if you face all of this death and indifference and keep your humanity, and your love and your dignity and YOU refuse to surrender to their terror, then you know something of the courage that is Palestine.
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Suheir Hammad
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The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Roadmap for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens--and honor its own previous commitments--by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions. The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.
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Jimmy Carter (Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid)
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My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.
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ุบุณุงู† ูƒู†ูุงู†ูŠ
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But thereโ€™s a message there for everyone and it is that people can unite, that democracy from below can challenge oligarchy, that imprisoned migrants can be freed, that fascism can be overcome, and that equality is emancipatory. The
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Angela Y. Davis (Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement)
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I am not anti-American,' he said. 'I just despise the current American administration. I despair that Bush has made ordinary, decent people all over the world think twice about what was once, and still could be again, a great country, when what happened on September 11th should have made ordinary, decent people all over the world embrace America as never before. I don't like it that neo-conservative politicians bully their so-called allies while playing to the worst, racist instincts of their own bewildered electorate. I don't like it that we live in an era where to be anti-war is to be anti-American, to be pro-Palestine is to be anti-Semitic, to be critical of Blair is somehow to be supportive of Putin and Chirac. All anybody is asking for in this so-called age of terror is some leadership. Yet everywhere you look in public life there is no truth, no courage, no dignity to speak of.
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Charles Cumming (Typhoon)
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Incompatible religious doctrines have balkanized our world into separate moral communities, and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it has been at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews vs. Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians vs. Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians vs. Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants vs. Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims vs. Hindus), Sudan (Muslims vs. Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims vs. Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims vs. Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists vs. Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims vs. Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite vs. Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians vs. Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis vs. Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. These are places where religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in recent decades. Why is religion such a potent source of violence? There is no other sphere of discourse in which human beings so fully articulate their differences from one another, or cast these differences in terms of everlasting rewards and punishments. Religion is the one endeavor in which usโ€“them thinking achieves a transcendent significance. If you really believe that calling God by the right name can spell the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, then it becomes quite reasonable to treat heretics and unbelievers rather badly. The stakes of our religious differences are immeasurably higher than those born of mere tribalism, racism, or politics.
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Sam Harris
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ู„ุง ุฃุญุฏ ูŠู…ูƒู†ู‡ ุฅุณุชู…ู„ุงูƒ ุดุฌุฑุฉ. ูŠู…ูƒู†ู‡ุง ุฃู† ุชู†ุชู…ูŠ ุฅู„ูŠูƒุŒ ูƒู…ุง ูŠู…ูƒู†ูƒ ุฃู† ุชู†ุชู…ูŠ ุฅู„ูŠู‡ุง. ู†ุญู† ู†ุฃุชูŠ ู…ู† ุฃู…ู†ุง ุงู„ุฃุฑุถุŒ ู†ู…ู†ุญู‡ุง ุญุจู‘ู†ุง ูˆุฌู‡ุฏู†ุงุŒูˆู‡ูŠ ููŠ ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงุจู„ ุชูุบุฐูู‘ูŠู†ุงุŒ ูˆุนู†ุฏู…ุง ู†ู…ูˆุช ู†ุนูˆุฏ ุฅู„ู‰ ุงู„ุฃุฑุถ. ุจุทุฑูŠู‚ุฉ ู…ุงุŒ ุงู„ุฃุฑุถ ุชู…ุชู„ูƒู†ุง.. ูู„ุณุทูŠู† ุชู…ุชู„ูƒู†ุงุŒู†ุญู† ู†ู†ุชู…ูŠ ุฅู„ูŠู‡ุง!
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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I have spent a great deal of my life during the past thirty-five years advocating the rights of the Palestinian people to national self-determination, but I have always tried to do that with full attention paid to the reality of the Jewish people and what they suffered by the way of persecution and genocide. The paramount thing is that the struggle for equality in Palestine/Israel should be directed toward a humane goal, that is, coexistence, and not further suppression and denial. Not accidentally, I indicate that Orientalism and modern anti-Semitism have common roots. Therefore, it would seem to be a vital necessity for independent intellectuals always to provide alternative models to the reductively simplifying and confining ones, based on mutual hostility, that have prevailed in the Middle East and elsewhere for so long.
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Edward W. Said (Orientalism)
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Many signs point to the fact that the youth of the Third World will no longer tolerate living in circumstances that give them no hope for the future. From the young boys I met in the demobilization camps in Sierra Leone to the suicide bombers of Palestine and Chechnya, to the young terrorists who fly planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we can no longer afford to ignore them. We have to take concrete steps to remove the causes of their rage, or we have to be prepared to suffer the consequences.
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Romรฉo Dallaire (Shake Hands with the Devil)
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If the Palestinian people really wish to decide that they will battle to the very end to prevent partition or annexation of even an inch of their ancestral soil, then I have to concede that that is their right. I even think that a sixty-year rather botched experiment in marginal quasi-statehood is something that the Jewish people could consider abandoning. It represents barely an instant in our drawn-out and arduous history, and it's already been agreed even by the heirs of Ze'ev Jabotinsky that the whole scheme is unrealizable in 'Judaea and Samaria,' let alone in Gaza or Sinai. But it's flat-out intolerable to be solicited to endorse a side-by-side Palestinian homeland and then to discover that there are sinuous two-faced apologists explaining away the suicide-murder of Jewish civilians in Tel Aviv, a city which would be part of a Jewish state or community under any conceivable 'solution.' There's that word again...
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Christopher Hitchens (Hitch 22: A Memoir)
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Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backwardโ€”reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
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Michael Crichton
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ููŠ ู…ุญู†ุฉ ุชุงุฑูŠุฎ ุฏููู† ุญูŠุงู‹, ุณู‚ุท ุงู„ุนุงู… 1948 ููŠ ูู„ุณุทูŠู† ู…ู† ุงู„ุฑุฒู†ุงู…ุฉ ุฅู„ู‰ ุงู„ู…ู†ูู‰ ู…ุชูˆู‚ูุงู‹ ุนู† ุญุณุงุจ ุงู„ุนุฏ ุงู„ุณุงุฆุฑ ู„ู„ุฃูŠุงู… ูˆุงู„ุดู‡ูˆุฑ ูˆุงู„ุณู†ูˆุงุช, ู„ูŠุตุจุญ ุจุฏู„ุง ู…ู† ุฐู„ูƒ ุถุจุงุจูŠุงู‹ ู„ุง ู†ู‡ุงูŠุฉ ู„ู‡! ุงู„ุดู‡ูˆุฑ ุงู„ุงุซู†ุง ุนุดุฑ ู„ุชู„ูƒ ุงู„ุณู†ุฉ ุฃุนุงุฏุช ุชุฑุชูŠุจ ู†ูุณู‡ุงุŒ ูˆุงู„ุชููŽู‘ุช ูƒุงู„ุฏูˆุงู…ุฉ ุจู„ุง ู‡ุฏู ููŠ ู‚ู„ุจ ูู„ุณุทูŠู†!
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Susan Abulhawa (Mornings in Jenin)
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Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position, which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take. You do not want to appear too political; you are afraid of seeming controversial; you want to keep a reputation for being balanced, objective, moderate; your hope is to be asked back, to consult, to be on a board or prestigious committee, and so to remain within the responsible mainstream; someday you hope to get an honorary degree, a big prize, perhaps even an ambassadorship. For an intellectual these habits of mind are corrupting par excellence. If anything can denature, neutralize, and finally kill a passionate intellectual life it is the internalization of such habits. Personally I have encountered them in one of the toughest of all contemporary issues, Palestine, where fear of speaking out about one of the greatest injustices in modern history has hobbled, blinkered, muzzled many who know the truth and are in a position to serve it. For despite the abuse and vilification that any outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights and self-determination earns for him or herself, the truth deserves to be spoken, represented by an unafraid and compassionate intellectual.
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Edward W. Said
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ุดุนุจู†ุง ู„ู… ูŠุชุฑูƒ ุจู„ุงุฏู‡ ุจุฅุฑุงุฏุชู‡ุŒ ุดุนุจู†ุง ุทูุฑุฏ ู…ู† ุจู„ุงุฏู‡ุŒ ู„ูŠุณ ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ู„ุงุฌุฆูŠู† ูˆู„ุง ุนู„ู‰ ุฃุจู†ุงุฆู‡ู… ุฃู† ูŠุดุนุฑูˆุง ุจู…ุณุคูˆู„ูŠุฉ ุงู„ู‡ุฑุจ ู…ู† ุฃูˆุทุงู†ู‡ู…ุŒ ุฅุณุฑุงุฆูŠู„ ู‡ูŠ ุงู„ู…ุณุคูˆู„ุฉ.. ู‡ู… ุทูุฑุฏูˆุง ุทุฑุฏุงู‹. ู„ุฐู„ูƒ ุญูŠู†ู…ุง ุฃุชุญุฏุซ ุนู† ุชุฌุฑุจุฉ ุฌูŠู„ูŠ ูุฅู†ู†ูŠ ุฃู‚ุตุฏ ู‡ุฐู‡ ุงู„ุฃู…ูˆุฑุŒ ู…ุฑุฑู†ุง ุนู„ู‰ ู‡ุฐู‡ ุงู„ู…ุฃุณุงุฉ ู†ูุณู‡ุง. ุฃู†ุง ูˆุฌูŠู„ูŠุŒ ุฑุฃูŠู†ุง ู‡ุฐู‡ ุงู„ู…ุฃุณุงุฉ ูˆุนู„ูŠูƒู… ุฃู† ู„ุง ุชูƒุฑุฑูˆู‡ุง.
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ุฅู…ูŠู„ ุญุจูŠุจูŠ
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ูˆุนู†ุฏู…ุง ุฒุงุฑุช ุบูˆู„ุฏุง ู…ุฆูŠุฑ, ูˆู‡ูŠ ูˆุงุญุฏุฉ ู…ู† ุงู„ุฒุนู…ุงุก ุงู„ุตู‡ูŠูˆู†ูŠูŠู† ุงู„ูƒุจุงุฑ, ุญูŠูุง ุจุนุฏ ุฃูŠุงู… ู‚ู„ูŠู„ุฉ, ูˆุฌุฏุช ู…ู† ุงู„ุตุนุจ ุนู„ูŠู‡ุง ููŠ ุงู„ุจุฏุงูŠุฉ ุฃู† ุชูƒุจุช ุฅุญุณุงุณุงู‹ ุจุงู„ุฑุนุจ ุนู†ุฏู…ุง ุฏุฎู„ุช ุงู„ุจูŠูˆุช ุญูŠุซ ูƒุงู† ุงู„ุทุนุงู… ุงู„ู…ุทุจูˆุฎ ู…ุง ุฒุงู„ ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ุทุงูˆู„ุงุช, ูˆุงู„ุฃู„ุนุงุจ ูˆุงู„ูƒุชุจ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุชุฑูƒู‡ุง ุงู„ุฃุทูุงู„ (ุงู„ูู„ุณุทูŠู†ูŠูˆู†) ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ุฃุฑุถ, ูˆุญูŠุซ ุจุฏุง ุงู„ุฃู…ุฑ ูƒุฃู† ุงู„ุญูŠุงุฉ ุชุฌู…ุฏุช ููŠ ู„ุญุธุฉ ูˆุงุญุฏุฉ. ูˆูƒุงู†ุช ู…ุฆูŠุฑ ุฌุงุกุช ูู„ุณุทูŠู† ู…ู† ุงู„ูˆู„ุงูŠุงุช ุงู„ู…ุชุญุฏุฉ, ุงู„ุชูŠ ู‡ุฑุจุช ุนุงุฆู„ุชู‡ุง ุฅู„ูŠู‡ุง ููŠ ุฅุซุฑ ุงู„ู…ุฐุงุจุญ ุงู„ู…ู†ุธู…ุฉ ููŠ ุฑูˆุณูŠุง, ูˆุฐูƒุฑุชู‡ุง ุงู„ู…ู†ุงุธุฑ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุดุงู‡ุฏุชู‡ุง ุฐู„ูƒ ุงู„ูŠูˆู… ุจุฃุณูˆุฃ ุงู„ู‚ุตุต ุงู„ุชูŠ ุณู…ุนุชู‡ุง ู…ู† ุนุงุฆู„ุชู‡ุง ุนู† ุงู„ูˆุญุดูŠุฉ ุถุฏ ุงู„ูŠู‡ูˆุฏ ู‚ุจู„ ุนู‚ูˆุฏ. ู„ูƒู† ุฐู„ูƒ ู„ู… ูŠุคุซุฑ, ูƒู…ุง ูŠุจุฏูˆ, ููŠ ุนุฒู…ู‡ุง ุฃูˆ ุนุฒู… ุฒู…ู„ุงุฆู‡ุง ุนู„ู‰ ุงู„ู…ุถูŠ ู‚ุฏู…ุงู‹ ููŠ ุงู„ุชุทู‡ูŠุฑ ุงู„ุนุฑู‚ูŠ ู„ูู„ุณุทูŠู†.
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Ilan Pappรฉ (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine)
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ูุฅุฐุง ูƒุงู† ููŠ ูˆุณุน ุงู„ูŠู‡ูˆุฏูŠ ุฃู† ูŠุบุงุฏุฑ ุงู„ูˆู„ุงูŠุงุช ุงู„ู…ุชุญุฏุฉ ุฃูˆ ุฃูˆุฑูˆุจุง ุฃูˆ ุฑูˆุณูŠุง ู„ูŠู„ุชุญู‚ ุจุฌูŠุด ุงู„ุฏูุงุน ุงู„ุฅุณุฑุงุฆูŠู„ูŠ, ูˆูŠุดุงุฑูƒ ููŠ ุงู„ุงุถุทู‡ุงุฏ ุงู„ู…ุณู„ุญ ู„ู„ู…ุณู„ู…ูŠู† ูˆุงู„ู…ุณูŠุญูŠูŠู† ุฃุจู†ุงุก ุงู„ุดุนุจ ุงู„ูู„ุณุทูŠู†ูŠ ููŠ ุงู„ุฃุฑุถ ุงู„ู…ู‚ุฏุณุฉ, ููŠู†ุจุบูŠ ุฃู† ุชูƒูˆู† ู„ู„ู…ุณู„ู… ู†ูุณ ุงู„ุญุฑูŠุฉ ููŠ ุฃู† ูŠุบุงุฏุฑ ุงู„ู…ูƒุงู† ุงู„ุฐูŠ ูŠู‚ูŠู… ููŠู‡, ููŠ ุฃูŠ ู…ูƒุงู† ููŠ ุงู„ุนุงู„ู…, ูˆุฃู† ูŠุดุงุฑูƒ ููŠ ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงูˆู…ุฉ ุงู„ู…ุณู„ุญุฉ ุงู„ุชูŠ ูŠู‚ูˆู… ุจู‡ุง ุงู„ู…ุถุทู‡ุฏูˆู† ููŠ ุงู„ุฃุฑุถ ุงู„ู…ู‚ุฏุณุฉ.
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Imran N. Hosein (Jerusalem in The Qur'an)
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I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this reason, I have never been able to see Zionism as a cure for it. American and British and French Jews have told me with perfect sincerity that they are always prepared for the day when 'it happens again' and the Jew-baiters take over. (And I don't pretend not to know what they are talking about: I have actually seen the rabid phenomenon at work in modern and sunny Argentina and am unable to forget it.) So then, they seem to think, they will take refuge in the Law of Return, and in Haifa, or for all I know in Hebron. Never mind for now that if all of world Jewry did settle in Palestine, this would actually necessitate further Israeli expansion, expulsion, and colonization, and that their departure under these apocalyptic conditions would leave the new brownshirts and blackshirts in possession of the French and British and American nuclear arsenals. This is ghetto thinking, hardly even fractionally updated to take into account what has changed. The important but delayed realization will have to come: Israeli Jews are a part of the diaspora, not a group that has escaped from it. Why else does Israel daily beseech the often-flourishing Jews of other lands, urging them to help the most endangered Jews of all: the ones who rule Palestine by force of arms? Why else, having supposedly escaped from the need to rely on Gentile goodwill, has Israel come to depend more and more upon it? On this reckoning, Zionism must constitute one of the greatest potential non sequiturs in human history.
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Christopher Hitchens (Hitch 22: A Memoir)
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ุฃุชุฑูŠู† ู‡ุฐู‡ ุงู„ุดุฑูŠุญุฉุŸ ุญูŠู† ูƒู†ุช ุฃุถุน ุงู„ู…ุฑุจู‰ ููˆู‚ ุงู„ุฒุจุฏุฉ ุชุฐูƒุฑุชู ุฃุฎูŠ ุงู„ุตุบูŠุฑ.. ูƒุงู† ูŠุนุชู‚ุฏ ุฏุงุฆู…ุง ุฃู†ู‘ ูˆุถุน ุงู„ู…ุฑุจู‰ ููˆู‚ ุงู„ุฒุจุฏุฉ ู‡ูˆ ู†ูˆุน ู…ู† ู‚ู„ู‘ุฉ ุงู„ุฐูˆู‚ุŒ ูุฃู†ุช ุฅู…ู‘ุง ุฃู† ุชุฃูƒู„ ุฒุจุฏุฉ ุฃูˆ ุชุฃูƒู„ ู…ุฑุจู‰ ูˆ ู„ุง ูŠุฌูˆุฒ ุฃู† ุชุฃูƒู„ู‡ู…ุง ู…ุนุง ู„ุฃู†ู‘ูƒุŒ ุนู†ุฏ ุฐุงูƒ ุชูƒูˆู† ู‚ุฏ ุนุจู‘ุฑุชูŽ ุนู† ุงุญุชู‚ุงุฑ ู„ูƒุฑุงู…ุฉ ุงู„ุฒุจุฏุฉ ุฃูˆ ู„ูƒุฑุงู…ุฉ ุงู„ู…ุฑุจู‰.. ูƒุงู†ุŒ ูˆ ุฃุนุชู‚ุฏ ุฃู†ู‘ู‡ ู…ุง ูŠุฒุงู„ ูŠุนุชู‚ุฏ ุจุฃู† ุงู„ุฒุจุฏุฉ ู†ูˆุน ู…ู† ุงู„ู…ุฃูƒู„ ุงู„ุฐูŠ ูŠุญุชูˆูŠ ุนู„ู‰ ูƒู„ ุงู„ุนู†ุงุตุฑ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุชุฌุนู„ ู…ู†ู‡ ุดูŠุฆุง ู‚ุงุฆู…ุง ุจุฐุงุชู‡ ู„ุง ูŠุฌูˆุฒ ุงู„ุงุณุชู‡ุงู†ุฉ ุจู‡.
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ุบุณุงู† ูƒู†ูุงู†ูŠ (ุนู† ุงู„ุฑุฌุงู„ ูˆุงู„ุจู†ุงุฏู‚)
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ู„ุณู†ุง ุดุนุจ ุงู„ุฎุงู…ุณ ู…ู† ุดู‡ุฑ ุญุฒูŠุฑุงู† ู†ุญู† ูƒูƒู„ ุดุนูˆุจ ุงู„ุฃุฑุถ ู†ู…ู„ูƒ ุฃูŠุงู… ุงู„ุณู†ุฉ ุงู„ุดู…ุณูŠุฉ ูˆุงู„ุณู†ุฉ ุงู„ู‚ู…ุฑูŠุฉ ู†ุนุฑู ูƒู„ ูุตูˆู„ ุงู„ุญุจ ูˆู†ุนุฑู ูƒู„ ูุตูˆู„ ุงู„ุจุบุถ ู†ุนุฑู ุญุฒู† ุงู„ุฌูŽุฒู’ุฑ ูˆู†ุนุฑู ุนู†ู ุงู„ู…ุฏ ู„ู€ุณู€ู†ู€ู€ุง ุดุนุจ ุงู„ุฎู€ุงู…ู€ุณ ู…ู† ุดู‡ุฑ ุญู€ุฒูŠู€ุฑุงู† ูู„ูŠูู‡ู… ู…ุณุชุฑ ู‡ูˆู„ุงูƒูˆ ูˆู„ูŠูู‡ู… ู…ุณุชุฑ ุฌู†ูƒูŠุฒุฎุงู† ูˆู„ูŠูู‡ู… ูƒู„ ู‚ุฑุงุตู†ุฉ ุงู„ุชุงุฑูŠุฎ ููŠ ุงู„ู…ุงุถูŠุŒ ูˆุงู„ุญุงุถุฑุŒ ูˆุงู„ู…ุณุชู‚ุจู„ ูˆู„ูŠูู‡ู… ูƒู„ ุงู„ุฃุณูŠุงุฏ ูˆูƒู„ ุงู„ุฃุนูˆุงู† : ุฃู‚ูˆู‰ ู…ู† ูƒู„ ุงู„ุฌู†ุฑู„ุงุช ูˆูƒู„ ุงู„ุฏุจุงุจุงุช ูˆูƒู„ ุงู„ู†ูุงุซุงุช ูˆูƒู„ ุงู„ุบูˆุงุตุงุช ูˆูƒู„ ุงู„ุฑุงุฏุงุฑุงุช.. ุงู„ุฎ.. ุฃู‚ู€ู€ู€ูˆู‰ ู…ู€ู†ู€ู€ู‡ู€ุง ูƒู€ู€ู ุฅู†ู€ู€ุณู€ู€ู€ุงู† ุนู„ู€ู‰ ู…ู‚ุจุถ ู…ู†ุฌู€ู„ ู‡ู€ุฐุง ุฏุฑุณ ุงู„ู…ู€ู€ุงุถูŠ ูˆุงู„ุญู€ู€ู€ุงุถุฑ .. ูู„ู†ุชุนู„ู€ู€ู… .. ู„ู„ู…ุณุชู‚ู€ุจู€ู„ !
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Samih Al-Qasim (ุงู„ู…ูˆุช ุงู„ูƒุจูŠุฑ)
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Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been 'sold' to me as an essentially secular and democratic one. The idea was a haven for the persecuted and the survivors, a democracy in a region where the idea was poorly understood, and a place whereโ€”as Philip Roth had put it in a one-handed novel that I read when I was about nineteenโ€”even the traffic cops and soldiers were Jews. This, like the other emphases of that novel, I could grasp. Indeed, my first visit was sponsored by a group in London called the Friends of Israel. They offered to pay my expenses, that is, if on my return I would come and speak to one of their meetings. I still haven't submitted that expenses claim. The misgivings I had were of two types, both of them ineradicable. The first and the simplest was the encounter with everyday injustice: by all means the traffic cops were Jews but so, it turned out, were the colonists and ethnic cleansers and even the torturers. It was Jewish leftist friends who insisted that I go and see towns and villages under occupation, and sit down with Palestinian Arabs who were living under house arrestโ€”if they were luckyโ€”or who were squatting in the ruins of their demolished homes if they were less fortunate. In Ramallah I spent the day with the beguiling Raimonda Tawil, confined to her home for committing no known crime save that of expressing her opinions. (For some reason, what I most remember is a sudden exclamation from her very restrained and respectable husband, a manager of the local bank: 'I would prefer living under a Bedouin muktar to another day of Israeli rule!' He had obviously spent some time thinking about the most revolting possible Arab alternative.) In Jerusalem I visited the Tutungi family, who could produce title deeds going back generations but who were being evicted from their apartment in the old city to make way for an expansion of the Jewish quarter. Jerusalem: that place of blood since remote antiquity. Jerusalem, over which the British and French and Russians had fought a foul war in the Crimea, and in the mid-nineteenth century, on the matter of which Christian Church could command the keys to some 'holy sepulcher.' Jerusalem, where the anti-Semite Balfour had tried to bribe the Jews with the territory of another people in order to seduce them from Bolshevism and continue the diplomacy of the Great War. Jerusalem: that pest-house in whose environs all zealots hope that an even greater and final war can be provoked. It certainly made a warped appeal to my sense of history.
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Christopher Hitchens (Hitch 22: A Memoir)
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Israelโ€™s settler colonialism differed from its predecessorsโ€™ in another way. Where European powers colonized from a position of strength and a claim to God-given superiority, the post-Holocaust Zionist claim to Palestine was based on the reverse: on Jewish victimization and vulnerability. The tacit argument many Zionists were making at the time was that Jews had earned the right to an exception from the decolonial consensusโ€”an exception born of their very recent near extermination. The Zionist version of justice said to Western powers: If you could establish your empires and your settler colonial nations through ethnic cleansing, massacres, and land theft, then it is discrimination to say that we cannot. If you cleared your land of its Indigenous inhabitants, or did so in your colonies, then it is anti-Semitic to say that we cannot. It was as if the quest for equality were being reframed not as the right to be free from discrimination, but as the right to discriminate. Colonialism framed as reparations for genocide.
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Naomi Klein (Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World)
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Helen opened her eyes and gazed into the luminous blue of the sky. Was it crazy, she wondered, to be as grateful as she felt now, for moments like this, in a world that had atomic bombs in itโ€”and concentration camps, and gas chambers? People were still tearing each other into pieces. There was still murder, starvation, unrest, in Poland, Palestine, Indiaโ€”God knew where else. Britain itself was sliding into bankruptcy and decay. Was it a kind of idiocy or selfishness, to want to be able to give yourself over to the trifles: to the parp of the Regentโ€™s Park Band; to the sun on your face, the prickle of grass beneath your heels, the movement of cloudy beer in your veins, the secret closeness of your lover? Or were those trifles all you had? Oughtnโ€™t you, precisely, to preserve them? To make little crystal drops of them, that you could keep, like charms on a bracelet, to tell against danger when next it came?
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Sarah Waters (The Night Watch)
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Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is currently happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people. My illness proved that. As well as my understanding that Generose's lost daughter belongs to all of us. It is up to all of us to find her; it is up to us to do our best to make her whole again. There is only one daughter, one father, one mother, one son, one aunt or uncle, one dog, one cat, donkey, monkey, or goat in the universe, after all: the one right in front of you.
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Alice Walker (Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel)
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And I should say parenthetically, when I learned about this in May, I remembered when I was placed on the Ten Most Wanted. I didnโ€™t make the Ten Most Wanted terrorist list, I think they didnโ€™t have one at that time, but I made the Ten Most Wanted criminal list. And I was represented as armed and dangerous. And you know one of the things I remember thinking to myself was, what is this all about? What could I possibly do? And then I realized it wasnโ€™t about me at all; it wasnโ€™t about the individual at all. It was about sending a message to large numbers of people whom they thought they could discourage from involvement in the freedom struggles at that time.
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Angela Y. Davis (Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement)
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ู„ูŠุณุช ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงูˆู…ุฉ ุงู„ู…ุณู„ุญุฉ ู‚ุดุฑุฉุŒ ู‡ูŠ ุซู…ุฑุฉ ู„ุฒุฑุนุฉ ุถุงุฑุจุฉ ุฌุฐูˆุฑู‡ุง ุนู…ูŠู‚ุงู‹ ููŠ ุงู„ุฃุฑุถุŒ ูˆุฅุฐุง ูƒุงู† ุงู„ุชุญุฑูŠุฑ ูŠู†ุจุน ู…ู† ููˆู‡ุฉ ุงู„ุจู†ุฏู‚ูŠุฉุŒ ูุฅู† ุงู„ุจู†ุฏู‚ูŠุฉ ุฐุงุชู‡ุง ุชู†ุจุน ู…ู† ุฅุฑุงุฏุฉ ุงู„ุชุญุฑูŠุฑุŒ ูˆุฅุฑุงุฏุฉ ุงู„ุชุญุฑูŠุฑ ู„ูŠุณุช ุณูˆู‰ ุงู„ู†ุชุงุฌ ุงู„ุทุจูŠุนูŠ ูˆุงู„ู…ู†ุทู‚ูŠ ูˆุงู„ุญุชู…ูŠ ู„ู„ู…ู‚ุงูˆู…ุฉ ุจู…ุนู†ุงู‡ุง ุงู„ูˆุงุณุน: ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงูˆู…ุฉ ุนู„ู‰ ุตุนูŠุฏ ุงู„ุฑูุถุŒ ูˆุนู„ู‰ ุตุนูŠุฏ ุงู„ุชู…ุณูƒ ุงู„ุตู„ุจ ุจุงู„ุฌุฐูˆุฑ ูˆุงู„ู…ูˆุงู‚ู. ูˆู…ุซู„ ู‡ุฐุง ุงู„ู†ูˆุน ู…ู† ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงูˆู…ุฉ ูŠุชุฎุฐ ุดูƒู„ู‡ ุงู„ุฑุงุฆุฏ ููŠ ุงู„ุนู…ู„ ุงู„ุณูŠุงุณูŠ ูˆ ุงู„ุนู…ู„ ุงู„ุซู‚ุงููŠุŒ ูˆ ูŠุดูƒู„ ู‡ุฐุงู† ุงู„ุนู…ู„ุงู† ุงู„ู…ุชุฑุงูู‚ุงู† ุงู„ู„ุฐุงู† ูŠูƒู…ู„ ูˆุงุญุฏู‡ู…ุง ุงู„ุขุฎุฑ ุงู„ุฃุฑุถ ุงู„ุฎุตุจุฉ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุชุณุชูˆู„ุฏ ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงูˆู…ุฉ ุงู„ู…ุณู„ุญุฉ ูˆ ุชุญุถู†ู‡ุง ูˆ ุชุถู…ู† ุงุณุชู…ุฑุงุฑ ู…ุณูŠุฑุชู‡ุง ูˆ ุชุญูŠุทู‡ุง ุจุงู„ุถู…ุงู†ุงุช. ูˆู…ู† ู‡ู†ุง ูุฅู† ุงู„ุดูƒู„ูŽ ุงู„ุซู‚ุงููŠ ููŠ ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงูˆู…ุฉู ูŠุทุฑุญ ุฃู‡ู…ูŠุฉ ู‚ุตูˆู‰ ู„ูŠุณุช ุฃุจุฏุงู‹ ุฃู‚ู„ ู‚ูŠู…ุฉ ู…ู† ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงูˆู…ุฉ ุงู„ู…ุณู„ุญุฉ ุฐุงุชู‡ุงุŒ ูˆ ุจุงู„ุชุงู„ูŠ ูุฅู† ุฑุตุฏู‡ุง ูˆ ุงุณุชู‚ุตุงุกู‡ุง ูˆ ูƒุดู ุฃุนู…ุงู‚ู‡ุง ุชุธู„ ุถุฑูˆุฑุฉ ู„ุง ุบู†ู‰ ุนู†ู‡ุง ู„ูู‡ู… ุงู„ุฃุฑุถ ุงู„ุชูŠ ุชุฑุชูƒุฒ ุนู„ูŠู‡ุง ุจู†ุงุฏู‚ู ุงู„ูƒูุงุญู ุงู„ู…ุณู„ุญ.
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ุบุณุงู† ูƒู†ูุงู†ูŠ (ุงู„ุฃุฏุจ ุงู„ูู„ุณุทูŠู†ูŠ ุงู„ู…ู‚ุงูˆู… ุชุญุช ุงู„ุงุญุชู„ุงู„ 1948-1968)
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[Israel's military occupation is] in gross violation of international law and has been from the outset. And that much, at least, is fully recognized, even by the United States, which has overwhelming and, as I said, unilateral responsibility for these crimes. So George Bush No. 1, when he was the U.N. ambassador, back in 1971, he officially reiterated Washington's condemnation of Israel's actions in the occupied territories. He happened to be referring specifically to occupied Jerusalem. In his words, actions in violation of the provisions of international law governing the obligations of an occupying power, namely Israel. He criticized Israel's failure "to acknowledge its obligations under the Fourth Geneva Convention as well as its actions which are contrary to the letter and spirit of this Convention." [...] However, by that time, late 1971, a divergence was developing, between official policy and practice. The fact of the matter is that by then, by late 1971, the United States was already providing the means to implement the violations that Ambassador Bush deplored. [...] on December 5th [2001], there had been an important international conference, called in Switzerland, on the 4th Geneva Convention. Switzerland is the state that's responsible for monitoring and controlling the implementation of them. The European Union all attended, even Britain, which is virtually a U.S. attack dog these days. They attended. A hundred and fourteen countries all together, the parties to the Geneva Convention. They had an official declaration, which condemned the settlements in the occupied territories as illegal, urged Israel to end its breaches of the Geneva Convention, some "grave breaches," including willful killing, torture, unlawful deportation, unlawful depriving of the rights of fair and regular trial, extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly. Grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, that's a serious term, that means serious war crimes. The United States is one of the high contracting parties to the Geneva Convention, therefore it is obligated, by its domestic law and highest commitments, to prosecute the perpetrators of grave breaches of the conventions. That includes its own leaders. Until the United States prosecutes its own leaders, it is guilty of grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, that means war crimes. And it's worth remembering the context. It is not any old convention. These are the conventions established to criminalize the practices of the Nazis, right after the Second World War. What was the U.S. reaction to the meeting in Geneva? The U.S. boycotted the meeting [..] and that has the usual consequence, it means the meeting is null and void, silence in the media.
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Noam Chomsky
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On behalf of those you killed, imprisoned, tortured, you are not welcome, Erdogan! No, Erdogan, youโ€™re not welcome in Algeria. We are a country which has already paid its price of blood and tears to those who wanted to impose their caliphate on us, those who put their ideas before our bodies, those who took our children hostage and who attempted to kill our hopes for a better future. The notorious family that claims to act in the name of the God and religionโ€”youโ€™re a member of itโ€”you fund it, you support it, you desire to become its international leader. Islamism is your livelihood Islamism, which is your livelihood, is our misfortune. We will not forget about it, and you are a reminder of it today. You offer your shadow and your wings to those who work to make our country kneel down before your โ€œSublime Door.โ€ You embody and represent what we loathe. You hate freedom, the free spirit. But you love parades. You use religion for business. You dream of a caliphate and hope to return to our lands. But you do it behind the closed doors, by supporting Islamist parties, by offering gifts through your companies, by infiltrating the life of the community, by controlling the mosques. These are the old methods of your โ€œMuslim Brothersโ€ in this country, who used to show us Godโ€™s Heaven with one hand while digging our graves with the other. No, Mr. Erdogan, you are not a man of help; you do not fight for freedom or principles; you do not defend the right of peoples to self-determination. You know only how to subject the Kurds to the fires of death; you know only how to subject your opponents to your dictatorship. You cry with the victims in the Middle East, yet sign contracts with their executioners. You do not dream of a dignified future for us, but of a caliphate for yourself. We are aware of your institutionalized persecution, your list of Turks to track down, your sinister prisons filled with the innocent, your dictatorial justice palaces, your insolence and boastful nature. You do not dream of a humanity that shares common values and principles, but are interested only in the remaking of the Ottoman Empire and its bloodthirsty warlords. Islam, for you, is a footstool; God is a business sign; modernity is an enemy; Palestine is a showcase; and local Islamists are your stunned courtesans. Humanity will not remember you with good deeds Humanity will remember you for your machinations, your secret coups dโ€™รฉtat, and your manhunts. History will remember you for your bombings, your vengeful wars, and your inability to engage in constructive dialogue with others. The UN vote for Al-Quds is only an instrument in your service. Let us laugh at this with the Palestinians. We know that the Palestinian issue is your political capital, as it is for many others. You know well how to make a political fortune by exploiting othersโ€™ emotions. In Algeria, we suffered, and still suffer, from those who pretend to be God and act as takers and givers of life. They applaud your coming, but not us. You are the idol of Algerian Islamists and Populists, those who are unable to imagine a political structure beyond a caliphate for Muslim-majority societies. We aspire to become a country of freedom and dignity. This is not your ambition, nor your virtue. You are an illusion You have made beautiful Turkey an open prison and a bazaar for your business and loved ones. I hope that this beautiful nation rises above your ambitions. I hope that justice will be restored and flourish there once again, at least for those who have been imprisoned, tortured, bombed, and killed. You are an illusion, Erdoganโ€”you know it and we know it. You play on the history of our humiliation, on our emotions, on our beliefs, and introduce yourself as a savior. However, you are a gravedigger, both for your own country and for your neighbors. Turkey is a political miracle, but it owes you nothing. The best thing you can do
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Kamel Daoud