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“Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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“Palestinian support for violence goes up when Palestinian hopes of freedom go down.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

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“We are not history’s permanent virtuous victims. We are not hardwired to forever endure evil but never commit it. That false innocence, which pervades contemporary Jewish life, camouflages domination as self-defense. It exempts Jews from external judgment. It offers infinite license to fallible human beings.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

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“So many of the bad things that happen in the world come from people pretending to be something they’re not.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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“I was so scared of being hurt that I'd done nothing. I was so scared of failing, of being hurt, that I choose nothing. I did nothing.”
― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

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