Goda

“Language is damaged when demands to stop killing civilians are 'antisemitic', when an army that dehumanizes its enemies is 'moral', when an enterprise of obliteration is a 'riposte', when a military operation openly conducted against Palestinian civilians is the 'Israel-Hamas war'.”
― Didier Fassin, Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

“The system does not work for you, was never intended to work for you, but as an act of magnanimity on our part, you may choose the degree to which it works against you.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“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

“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