Daniela

“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

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“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

“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