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“Just because you’re fighting evil doesn’t mean you’re good. And just because you’re doing evil doesn’t mean you’re bad. You end up with the conclusion that there is no ultimate right or wrong. It’s all shades of gray.”
― Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

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“If you think I am wrong, I am wrong for all the right reasons.
Dealing with death on a regular basis makes you shallow inside. Your soul sleeps inside your chest, pleading to be woken up. In those dark times in a battle, one bad moment, a step on a mine, a bullet on target, or a lethal explosion, and you are a dismembered lifeless memory. Your dead flesh lays on the hot sand which burns your bare skin if you are unlucky enough not to be numb.”
― Swaraj Bhatia, Our Days :A Survival Odyssey

tags: gaza, gaza-armed-conflict, gaza-war, israeli-palestinian-conflict, thriller-novels, war

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“Arabs used to produce science and algebra and now we’re famous for killing.”
― Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

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“There’s nothing to protect us. No state, no government, no law, no human rights. Animals have more rights than we do.”
― Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

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“What’s crucial in this whole process is that you don’t matter. You as an individual—your aspirations, your ideas about what is right—mean absolutely nothing. And that’s when you understand why people get radicalized. I completely understand why somebody would join ISIS or al-Qaeda or the Assad regime or the Kurdish groups. You are in dire need for a narrative that can justify this futility. There has to be a point. So you become radical. This suffering has to be for a reason. Otherwise it’s too painful.”
― Wendy Pearlman, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

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