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Omar El Akkad
“To preserve the values of the civilized world, it is necessary to set fire to a library. To blow up a mosque. To incinerate olive trees. To dress up in the lingerie of women who fled and then take pictures. To level universities. To loot jewelry, art, banks, food. To arrest children for picking vegetables. To shoot children for throwing stones. To parade the captured in their underwear. To break a man’s teeth and shove a toilet brush in his mouth. To let combat dogs loose on a man with Down syndrome and then leave him to die. Otherwise, the uncivilized world might win.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Mohammed El-Kurd
“And do their words matter when their policies speak for themselves?”
Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

Didier Fassin
“Without a doubt, what will haunt memories the longest, including perhaps in Israel itself, is how the inequality between lives has been paraded on the stage of Gaza, ignored by some and legitimized by others. That this supreme injustice - one life being worth less than another - is widespread in our world is a reality evident in peacetime and wartime alike. But there is hardly any previous instance in which the governments of Western countries so ostentatiously avert their eyes from it, to the extent of justifying it and silencing the voices that criticize it.”
Didier Fassin, Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

Omar El Akkad
“Alongside the ledger of atrocity, I keep another. The Palestinian doctor who would not abandon his patients, even as the bombs closed in. The Icelandic writer who raised money to get the displaced out of Gaza. The American doctors and nurses who risked their lives to go treat the wounded in the middle of a killing field. The puppet-maker who, injured and driven from his home, kept making dolls to entertain the children. The congresswoman who stood her ground in the face of censure, of constant vitriol, of her own colleagues’ indifference. The protesters, the ones who gave up their privilege, their jobs, who risked something, to speak out. The people who filmed and photographed and documented all this, even as it happened to them, even as they buried their dead.
It is not so hard to believe, even during the worst of things, that courage is the more potent contagion. That there are more invested in solidarity than annihilation. That just as it has always been possible to look away, it is always possible to stop looking away. None of this evil was ever necessary. Some carriages are gilded and others lacquered in blood, but the same engine pulls us all. We dismantle it now, build another thing entirely, or we hurtle toward the cliff, safe in the certainty that, when the time comes, we’ll learn to lay tracks on air.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Didier Fassin
“This is perhaps the ultimate key to interpreting the consent of Western countries to the obliteration of Gaza: atonement by proxy for their participation in the genocide of European Jews, even if it means allowing a second Nakba to be inflicted on a population whose sacrifice the world had already accepted.”
Didier Fassin, Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

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