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Oh this book makes you THINK

if they advocate for themselves, they must narrate only their personal tragedies. … it must remain individualistic, never for a collective cause and never through an organised collective, and must solely seek to remedy humanitarian crises that, like earthquakes and eclipses, occur in isolation from the global state of affairs.”

“Those who are deemed terrorists never get the opportunity to speak for themselves and are rarely offered due diligence … on the other hand, those who are victims .. are sometimes given the microphone and asked to speak. .. their anguished cries exist outside of history and politics, their injuries are reported without a culprit. …

“Here in the West … Palestines exist in a false - and strict - dichotomy: we are either victims or terrorists.”

“The sniper here, the removed fighter hire with the authority to erase our existence without ever having to engage it, endures in both a literal sense, on our hilltops and rooftops, and a metaphorical sense, in governments and in newsrooms. In this reality, the sniper’s hands are clean of blood.”