Fred Bernard

“it must be shown to American Jews that the choice between Israel’s survival and Palestinian rights is a false one; that it is in fact Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights and reflexive resort to criminal force that are pushing it toward destruction; that it is possible to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict so that everyone, Israeli Jew and Palestinian Arab, can preserve their full human dignity; and that such a settlement has been within reach for decades, but that Israel—with critical U.S. backing, largely because of the Israel lobby—has blocked it.”
― Norman G. Finkelstein, Knowing Too Much

“Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“The child is alone only in the presence of someone.”
― D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality

“There was such a dense concentration of American energy there, American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.”
― Michael Herr, Dispatches