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“You see death on the faces of the people in the street. You feel it. This piece of metal,this fragment of a rocket in front of me, reminds me of the light that Yaffa pointed to. It tells me death is still around us, that it is not satisfied yet. It needs more. Looking at it, I do not want to remember this. I do not want to forget it either.”

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“Who will convince the drone operator that the people of Gaza are not characters in a video game? Who will convince him that the buildings he sees on his screen are not graphics, but homes containing living rooms, and kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms; that there are kids inside, fast asleep; that posters line the walls?”

“A child, still in diapers, pulled out of the tents after the firebombing, his head severed from his body. Is there distance great enough, to be free of this? To be made clean?”

“We don't have to stop living just because we might die.”