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“How can anyone, today, not feel anger or pain in the face of Israel’s actions, at the way it conducts them, and its ability to silence debate everywhere?”

“How can one speak of conflict, as a synonym for war, to describe such a situation? Conflict requires two vaguely comparable sides. Israel and Palestine are not comparable antagonists: one is the occupier and the other the occupied, one is the colonizer and the other the colonized, placed in a condition of structural subordination and the victim of a system of control and segregation.”

“For a child, being arrested on charges such as throwing stones at Israeli soldiers, army vehicles, or settlers, and then being harassed or forced to provide information about the people of his city or neighbourhood, is an experience that will mark him or her forever, triggering a series of life-changing consequences.”

such a short book but such a hard read😭😭 i literally have to take a break after a couple of pages💔💔 my heart hurts but it’s so worth it