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What We Lose
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There must be some way to integrate death into living, neither ignoring it nor giving in to it.
“It’s not surprising, then, that victim often feels like our natural role. But it’s also a costume that our community urges upon us and re-tailors for the specifications of the moment. It evokes something familiar while concealing something unnerving, something our tradition knows: that Jews can be Pharaohs too.”
― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
“He could not erase the memory of the woman with the shining black hair, sparkling eyes, easy laugh and magic marbles. He could not forget the friend who thrust his finger out and held it in the dark like a beacon all night til the sun came up. The memory of that finger, that one solitary white finger reaching out in friendship and solidarity shone in his memory like a bright shining star.”
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“This was real life. And the beginning of a special regular story where two people meet and help each other make something beautiful, at the risk of making a mess.
No this ain't no movie. This is a mirror. This me. This her. This us.
This is real.”
― Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . . A Love Story
No this ain't no movie. This is a mirror. This me. This her. This us.
This is real.”
― Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . . A Love Story
“When a Jewish state denies most of its Palestinian residents citizenship and denies all of them legal equality, it is not merely offering Jews the right to determine their own lives. It is offering them dominance over another people. And under international law, there is a word for legal dominance based on ethnicity, religion, or race—a word that Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and even Israel’s own leading human rights group, B’Tselem, say applies to Israel. It is not “self-determination.” It is “apartheid.”
― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
“The answer to such bigotry should be clear: Americans are not responsible for foreign governments or organizations just because they have a common ancestry. There was nothing inherent in being German American in the 1910s that made you a supporter of the kaiser’s Germany and nothing inherent in being Japanese American in the 1940s that made you a supporter of imperial Japan. Similarly, there is nothing inherent in being Chinese American today that makes you favor the People’s Republic of China or in being Palestinian American that makes you approve of Hamas. Supporting foreign governments or organizations is a political choice, not an intrinsic expression of one’s ethnic or religious identity.”
― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
― Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
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