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“International law can be accurately and fairly described as a derivative of a colonial order and therefore structurally detrimental to former colonies, peoples still under colonial domination and individuals who lack nationality or who, like refugees, have been forcibly removed from their state and can no longer invoke its protection.”
― Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
― Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

“…what the Palestinians are demanding and what for many of them has become a sine qua non is that they be recognized as the victims of an ongoing evil. Consciously perpetrated against them by Israel. For Israeli Jews to accept this would naturally mean undermining their own status of victimhood. This would have political implications on an international scale, but also, perhaps far more critically, would trigger a moral and existential repercussions for the Israeli Jewish psyche. Israeli Jews would have to recognize that they have become the mirror image of their own worst nightmare.”
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“En Colombia, el país que más violencia sufre, el ochenta y cinco por ciento de los muertos es víctima de la llamada violencia común, y sólo el quince por ciento muere por la llamada violencia política. ¿No será que la violencia común expresa, de alguna manera, la impotencia política de las sociedades que no han podido fundar una paz digna de su nombre?”
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“La tarea más urgente de la humanidad en general es la tarea de reconocerse en el otro, la tarea de asumir la diferencia como una riqueza, la tarea de aprender a relacionarnos con los demás sin exigirles que se plieguen a lo que somos o que asuman nuestra verdad. Frente a los fascismos que hoy resurgen en tantos lugares del planeta se alza esta urgencia de hacer que en el mundo persista la diversidad de la que depende la vida misma. El triunfo de un solo modelo, de un solo camino, de una sola verdad, de una sola estética, de una sola lengua, es una amenaza tan grande como lo sería en el reino animal el triunfo de una sola especie o en el reino vegetal el triunfo de un solo árbol o de un solo helecho.”
― ¿Dónde está la franja amarilla?
― ¿Dónde está la franja amarilla?

“The minimalist role of national governments in housing supply has been reinforced by current neo-liberal economic orthodoxy as defined by the IMF and the World Bank. The Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) imposed upon debtor nations in the late 1970s and 1980s required a shrinkage of government programs and, often, the privatization of housing markets. However, the social state in the Third World was already withering away even before SAPs sounded the death knell for welfarism.”
― Planet of Slums
― Planet of Slums

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