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“In the past, the difficulty of many Israelis to accept Arendt’s book ran parallel to another difficulty—foreseen by Arendt early on—the difficulty of confronting, morally and politically, the plight of the dispossessed Palestinians. The Palestinians bore no responsibility for the collapse of civilization in Europe but ended up being punished for it” (viii)

“The women who appropriated feminism to advance their own opportunistic causes have achieved their desired ends and are no longer interested in feminism as a political ideology…Although women in the U.S. have come closer to obtaining social equality with men, the capitalist-patriarchal system is unchanged” (192).

“To be an oppressor is dehumanizing and anti-human in nature, as it is to be a victim…Men are encouraged to phobically focus on women as their ENEMY so that they will blindly allow other forces—the truly powerful dehumanizing elements in American life—to strip them daily of their humanity” (114)

“…when people talk about the ‘strength’ of black women they are referring to the way in which they perceive black woman coping with oppression. They ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.” (6)

“…beliefs of the chosen and promised as if God is a real-estate agent” (32)./ “She prays to her refuged God (34).

God appears all powerful to the colonizer and powerless to the colonized, hence “refuged.” Like American Manifest Destiny, Israelis use God to justify the genocide of the Palestinians. God allows the genocide which fuels it. It begs the question of where is God for the Palestinians?

Damn…