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

“Courage is the more potent contagion. There are more invested in solidarity than annihilation. Just as it has always been possible to look away, it is always possible to stop looking away.”

“And yet, against all this, one day, things will change. Alongside the ledger of atrocity, I keep another. The Palestinian doctor who would not abandon his patient, even as the bombs closed in... The American doctors and nurses who risked their lives to treat the wounded in the middle of a killing field. The puppet maker who, injured and driven from his home, kept making dolls to entertain the children.”

“There will be those who say it was all the work of a few bad actors. People who misled the rest of us well meaning folks. Anything to avoid contending with the possibility that all this killing wasn’t the result of a system abused, but a system functioning exactly as intended.”

“I cannot convince you of anything, because when you and I look at these pictures, we see fundamentally different things.” -Virginia Woolf

“In the final moments of Aaron Bushnell’s life, officers rushed to the site of his burning. One asks for a fire extinguisher. Another points his gun at the flames.”

“Wherever you are, whatever sands you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it.”

“In a hospital, in a refugee camp, in their beds, while making dinner for their children, while holding their siblings… while struggling to breathe under the rubble, while burying the dead, while waving a white flag, while running away, while at a checkpoint, in a torture camp, in a safe zone, in a school, while delivering aid, while waiting for aid. By a drone from the safety of a great distance.”

“It’s a fascinating directive, go back to where you came from. One can’t help but wonder how changed the world would be, had the ancestors of the same people who use that phrase now heeded the same advice then.”

“Fight it, then. Propose something to meet the nature of the moment.”

“It can’t be that innocent Palestinians have faced unbearable suffering, and we care very deeply about their plight, but nothing will stop the arming of the nation responsible.”