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Page 70. On the use of passive language: “To watch the descriptions of Palestinian suffering in much of mainstream western media is to watch language employed for the exact opposite of languages purpose-to watch the unmaking of meaning.”

Chapter 2 title witness: Omar is asking the journalism world of the West: how can someone maintain the ethical double-jointness or the daily basement of modern political life? How does one maintain the façade and sleep at night while the journalist who bring the reality of the world to light our daily slaughtered and their western colleagues with no such fear accept this as a sad lot for journalist around the world

“… yet it marked a small parcel of rootedness in those years when the West transformed from a thing on film and TV to the place where, more likely than not, I’d live out the rest of my life…. I remember thinking: if this is all there is, it’s enough maybe you don’t ever shake off the Manning of your name or the dumb jokes about camels, but at least you go to the library and read whatever you choose.”

Note to self: look up William Burroughs and read ‘Naked Lunch’ about a man being consumed by his own asshole…. Ok very interesting lol

on the hierarchy of migration: “ Expat” is largely reserved for white westerners who leave their homes for another country, usually because of the money is better there. When other people do this, they might be being “aliens” or “illegals “or at best “economic immigrants “. Page 12.

Pg 14 “ it is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.”

“ one of the hallmarks western liberalism is an assumption, in hindsight, of virtuous resistance, as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism” a while the terrible thing is happening. Any form of resistance must be crushed and is considered terrorism, (but after the terrible thing is done and time has passed, it becomes safe to generate resistance in hindsight.)