Daniela

“Why was our Mieczyslaw so afraid of them? Did he fear that they would peel away his carefully constructed image of a person who is on good terms with himself, who feels alright about himself and is sure of his own opinions? That they would take him back to Lwow, to face all those persecutors - at school, in the street, in doctors' consulting rooms, in his own home?”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

“After the Holocaust, it has become almost impossible to conceal large-scale crimes against humanity. Our modern communication-driven world, especially since the upsurge of electronic media, no longer allows human-made catastrophes to remain hidden from the public eye or to be denied. And yet, one such crime has been erased almost totally from the global public memory: the dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948 by Israel. This, the most formative event in the modern history of the land of Palestine, has ever since been systematically denied, and is still today not recognised as an historical fact, let alone acknowledged as a crime that needs to be confronted politically as well as morally.”
― Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

“When (Berl Katznelson) heard that the British government was considering the possibility of moving the Palestinians within Palestine, he was greatly disappointed: "The transfer to 'inside of Palestine' would mean the area of Shechem. I believe that their future lies in Syria and Iraq."
In those days, (Zionist) leaders like Katznelson hoped that the British would convince, or induce, the local population to leave.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Ben-Gurion articulated clearly the place of expulsion in the future of the Zionist project in Palestine when he wrote that same year, "With compulsory transfer we would have a vast area for settlement... I support compulsory transfer. I don't see anything immoral in it.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel