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"never again means never again for anyone"

"many of our elders have been alive longer than the State of Israel; we must work so that they live longer than the apartheid regime they are protesting."

Pero continuar hablando de como las mujeres observan a través de sus semillas femeninas (los ovarios) y cómo aparentemente a todas les gusta cavar y estar en contacto con la tierra porque buscan los huesos de la Mujer Salvaje...no sé, entre el esencialismo de género y el inventarse las cosas for the sake of el crecimiento propio me resulta difícil digerir esto. Ojalá fuese una colección de cuentos bien escrita y prou

Hace 5 págs estaba pensando en que podía llegar a entender y apreciar este libro y el psicoanálisis por lo evocativo de sus metáforas e imágenes, que igual era algo que de forma pictórica (novela gráfica, animación, cuadros) podría llegar a conectar conmigo, aunque me sea imposible apreciarlo como psicología o ciencia (la expresión "el hogar de los Seres de la Niebla" es compelling pero para una peli experimental)

Doikayt is both a rejection of the 'over thereness' of Zionism, which roots Jewishness in one particular (heavily mythologized) geography, and a rejection of the idea that redemption (liberation if you prefer) is something that comes from outside us, from divine intervention, from otherworldly design. We are bearers of our own future, and we cannot wait for saviors to do that work on our behalf."

"rejected Zionism in favor of doikayt. Doikayt means "hereness," a rootedness in place, a commitment to fight for our liberation and the liberation of all in the present, wherever we find ourselves. Wherever you are in this world, there is justice work to be done, and doikayt is one principle of our responsibility to do it.

"We will no longer allow the forces of imperialism and settler colonialism to manipulate us or others into complicity or perpetration."

"the largely unconditional 'special relationship' between the United States and Israel is no longer defensible on strategic grounds."

"The colonial situation manufactures colonialists, just as it manufactures the colonized ... every colonial nation carries the seeds of fascist temptation in its bosom."

"What was once extreme right is today center. Ideas that were once on the fringes have become legitimate."

"In Israel, the attack on 7 October has been describes in apocalyptic terms and always tied to the Holocaust: "single-worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust," as if the reason for their killing was their Jewishness."

"the most important shift taking place is the renewed realization amongst nations across the Global South of their shared struggle against US imperialism and the fact that unity is the only way to dismantle systems of oppression including the military-industrial complex, which is killing thousands in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Haiti, and Armenia."

- to assert sovereignty on the North of Sinai.”

“The Egyptian government should be pushed to keep the crossing open—not for the purpose of displacing Palestinians, but rather as the bare minimum measure needed to avert more horrors.”

“Were Egypt to allow a mass transfer of Palestinians to Sinai, Palestinians would instantly become the majority population, further undermining Egyptian sovereignty in the area. In the likely scenario in which Palestinians who resettled in Sinai continued resistance operations (or even if they didn’t), their presence would give Israel reason to attack Sinai in “self-defense” at a time when Egypt is already struggling

Intentando conceptualizar la "esencia femenina" de la que habla esta autora como algo no necesariamente femenino para poder siquiera empezar a entrar o intentar incorporar algo de esta lectura a mi vida. También estoy struggling con eso, la dualidad masculino(racionalidad)/femenino(naturaleza o intuición), veremos como lo voy gestionando (llevo solo 30 páginas de 800 así que...)

-life, in which one inherits a collective life and can participate in it, in which one can perceive herself as a part of a more extended history, a past that exceeds her, and a struggle that marks her.“

“what genocide in a restricted, legal meaning cannot fully frame are all those colonial obliterating acts that target not only the biological and physical life of a people but also houses, neighborhoods, mosques, churches, schools, streets, and finally, land—all those spaces that are not only the infrastructure of life in the present, but also the sites in which memory dwells, in which one can tell a story about her-

“the designation ‘terrorists’ attempts to close down discussion of any explanation, erasing the political character of anti-colonial resistance”

…As for Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s infrastructure, Von der Leyen says that Israel has the right to defend itself.”

“Attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes,” pointed out Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission. “Cutting off men, women, children [from] water, electricity and heating with winter coming,” she continued—“these are acts of pure terror.” Von der Leyen is right, of course, but in this instance she was referring to Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure

“Our grief is negligible; our rage is unwarranted. Our death is so quotidian that journalists report it as thought they’re reporting the weather. Cloudy skies, light showers and 3,000 Palestinians dead in the past ten days.”

“You taught me about your rage, now I need to explain to you: My anger is less hesitant and I am more sure that Palestine will be free. This is hard. This is sad. But this is how Palestinians get free.”

“All of the work in memory is as much about the future as it is about the past and present.”

“To think about tomorrow is itself an act of resistance and a testament to the power of imagination.”

“”Palestine is inside of me”, he says. He wants to make sure, he told me, that 2023 is a turning point in his consciousness. Maybe he is not far away at all.”

“How can we write when the fires are burning and the bombs are falling? Is recording this moment a desperate act or a necessary duty?”

“I don’t want peace anymore. Even in twenty years I will not want peace - the anger will remain.”

“We want to live freely like other people - to grow scientifically and economically, to walk in the street without fearing bombardments, to make plans. We want to be able to learn, think, grow, travel, dream - to feel like we are really human.”

“The context of other colonial experiences teaches us that liberation is possible - not only for the colonized people, but also for the oppressor, who is controlled by this ideology they wield to control us.”

“Nothing is too illegal for it to be used on us.”

“Israel has not gotten away with violence but has changed international law to make its grotesque violence permissible.”

-Palestinian resistance to them.”