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If it were presented to them, some would undoubtedly respond as Barbara Bush did, when ask about the Iraqi dead, “ why should we hear about body bags and depths.? It’s not relevant. so why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that.

Presented with proof of injustice, the majority human reflex is to act against it.

Chapter 6: craft

Omar is quite angry at “the west,” which really should be defined as the white west. More particularly the hypocrisy of the white west’s liberals. He is angry because they (we) have let him down so badly in Gaza… and so many places before, but especially Gaza, now. Can’t blame him, given the violence he describes which we fund and which our govt supports unquestioningly.

(But is the 3rd world citizen so self-righteous and innocent? It’s easy to blame the ppl who overthrew the Hawaiian govt or Chile, or who built their country with innocent slaves. But prior to the latest aggressors were and are equally oppressive native rule. And a system that sold their own into slavery, or sacrificed them even to the sun god. Shouldn’t the real villain be Man, not western man, or German man)

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“For members of every generation there comes a moment of complete, and completely emptying, disgust when it is revealed there is only a hollow, a completely malleable thing whose primary use is not the opposition of evil, or administration of justice, but the preservation of existing powers”

Then the cynical discovery of empire by the occupied.

But the blind eye that “the west” has turned tothe suffering of Gazans has put us on an equally despicable footing as the depots. But is this fair? Is the west responsible, or should we blame Biden and the Democratic Party establishment, and the other cowards who reflexively align with Israel out of political fear?

The wests big failure is to fail to live up to ideals that the autocrats never feign to adopt.

So far this reads as an indictment of the west. But the starting point is a rejection of authoritarian banana republics and sheikdoms. The west began for the author as an escape from the arbitrary rule of the powerful, to a rules based and free society, where people could be left alone to watch the movies or listen to the music they wanted, without stupid censorship.

Preface: 6 yo girl being taken out of bombed bldg. only survivor of family. “Are you taking me to cemetary” Gods will. “You are the moon”

Ch1. 18 mo old child shot by Israeli sniper in forehead.

Authoritarianism of Egypt, Childlike longing for freedom in western, rules order. Rules protect from whims of the powerful.

Disillusionment. native beating “invisible” Vs west financing slaughter in Gaza.