Dakota Reads’s Reviews > One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This > Status Update

page 74-75 “this phantom reality imposed on the Palestinian people one in which they left their land willingly, and we’re never expelled, never terrorized into movement. One in which as Golda Meir, stated and so many Israeli politicians have echoed since, there was no such thing as Palestinians. One in which Palestinian and identity if it did exist was meaningless and certainly conferred no rights. One in which these non-people were nonetheless treated well by the government and institutions that now rule over them given good laborer jobs, and sometimes even a 40 free passage on the roads, they’re allowed to drive on and the buses they’re allowed to board then behind the walls that are purely to keep everyone safe. When in which every failed piece agreement is the fault of these intransigent unreasonable people, and not the state whose officials to this day openly gloat about never allowing a Palestinian state to exist. One in which every round of violence is the sole consequence of the last Palestinian act of violence. One in which tins of thousands of dead children have only their support of Hamas to blame - in organization that last one an election before those kids were born.

There’s safety in this story safety from one own conscience because in this story, the weight of indictment shifts on the dispossessed, the disappeared the dead and no one can continue as is comfortable in the knowledge that history narrative language itself demands the killing to continue. Or better yet has nothing to say at all”