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chapter 5 is deeply distressing to read: its harrowing account of the violent displacement, the hesitant and ineffective responses within the Arab world compounded by Jordan's political collusion with Zionist leaders and the serious failures and neglect of responsibility by both the UN and the British authorities

“All over Israel many new settlements and national parks have become part of the country’s collective memory without any reference to the Palestinian villages that once stood there, even where there are vestiges, such as an isolated house or a mosque, which visibly attest to the fact that people used to live there as recently as 1948.”

“The Israeli documents released from the IDF archives in the late 1990s show clearly that, contrary to claims historians such as Benny Morris have made, Plan Dalet was handed down to the brigade commanders not as vague guidelines, but as clear-cut operational orders for action.”

“…and I accept that I myself — myself, my self — am all that I possess.”

"Most of them had no idea what was in store for them, that what was about to happen would constitute an unprecedented chapter in Palestine’s history: not a mere transition from one ruler to another, but the actual dispossession of the people living on the land.”

the narrator kinda remind me of the protagonist from Baby Reindeer

“...‘bringing peace to Palestine’ has always meant following a concept exclusively worked out between the US and Israel, without any serious consultation with, let alone regard for, the Palestinians.”

Precise and straightforward which makes the reading experience feel even more chilling

Oh…

Beautiful writing

I'm glad that we’re finally splitting the characters up

The presence of wolves just made the story infinitely better 🥹

Nynaeve, my dramatic diva

his grandma's house :(

delightfully weird

he’s lowkey asshole lol