‘Technology and media pretend to provide a world that is internetted — all they deliver is a world of shadows.’ #anamcara#abookofcelticwisdom#johnodonohue

‘A terrorised society will behave like an unthinking, submissive mob for a long time. Feeding it is enough to make it obey. Provided with amusements, it’s happy. The rather small arsenal of tricks has not changed in millennia.’ #theshahofshahs#ryszardkapuściński#crevicemoments

‘The revolution — in its essence and its substance [and] its local leadership — was a peasant revolt.’ ‘At no point in the entire history of the Palestinian struggle was the armed popular revolution as close to victory as it was…from the end of 1937 to the beginning of 1938.’

‘I’m the slant-eyed sniper in the trees. I’m the saboteur in the shrubs. I’m the stranger at the gate. I’m the traitor in your own backyard. I’m your houseboy. I’m your cook. I’m your gardener.

‘Common challenges: to consistently justify its opposition to social integration and to explain, in an infinitesimally precise manner, the process of turning Judaism into a state and a nation.’ #kanafani#onzionistliterature#literarycriticism

‘Zamzam walked back through a town that was beginning to bloom as a new capital in an independent state. Immigrants pouring in, the families and tribes of those who had borne the rages of this war, who had paid the prices for victory.’ #riverspirit#leilaaboulela

‘What if we took advantage of racism to invent new political horizons? What if we took advantage of “the failure of integration”? Our oppressors’ territory is itself shifting.’ #whitesjewsandus#houriabouteldja#towardsapoliticsofrevolutionarylove

‘the assumptions and narratives that underlie the judgement of Western strategists are very far from being clear-eyed assessments of what the future holds. They are…products of an “imperial optic”.’ #thenutmegscurse#parablesforaplanetincrisis@amitav.bsky.social

‘The Resistance Struggle against a criminal regime must be accorded its rightful place in our history, so that a new generation can believe in itself and in its future.’ #solidarityandtreason#lisafittko

‘If there was a past that taught them anything, it was that the attempt to own life destroyed it, brutalised the earth, and ran roughshod over everything on God’s creation for a dollar.’ ‘…the matter of life returns as an open question.’ #saidiyahartman#waywardlivesbeautifulexperiments