Goda

“The Palestinian People have consistently made it crystal clear that our enemy is Zionism, an ideology of dispossession, an expansionist and racist settler-colonial enterprise. Zionism, not Jews. Our capacity to produce such distinction is admirable and impressive, considering the heavy-handedness with which Zionism attempts to synonymize itself with Judaism. However, this distinction is not our responsibility, and, personally, it is not my priority.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

“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

“In Amman everything was 3eib, that unforgiving indictment that dictates what people can or cannot do, how they can or cannot be. The city ran on the mutterings of disapproval, uttered when someone did something improper. What that thing was, the action that evoked dishonor, was inconsequential. What mattered was whether it was seen, picked up by Amman's gossiping masses, the guardians of our morality, primed and ready to excise anyone who did not fit into the expected mold.”
― Tareq Baconi, Fire in Every Direction

“When Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, it turned the tiny enclave into an open-air prison. Israel’s response to the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023 – the incessant bombardment of Gaza by land, sea, and air – turned this open-air prison into an open graveyard, a pile of rubble, a desolate wasteland.”
― Avi Shlaim, Genocide in Gaza: Israel, Hamas, and the Long War on Palestine