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"Every night, I sleep through the same nightmare. I hear a roar coming towards me, an increasingly menacing rumour. I don't turn round. I don't need to. I know who's chasing me… I know they have machetes. Somehow, without turning around, I know they have machetes… Sometimes there are my classmates too. I hear their screams when they fall. When they… Now I'm running alone, I know I'm going to fall, I know I'm going to be trampled, I don't want to feel the cold of the blade on my neck, I…
I wake up. I'm in France. The house is silent. My children are asleep in their room.
– Scholastique Mukasonga, in her book "Inyenzi ou les Cafards" (incipit)
#Mukasonga #Rwanda #شهيد, #shaheed #words #witness #France #history #mourning #coloniality #book #racism #genocide #quote #quotes #nightmare #trauma #ethnicCleansing #PTSD
Uri Gordon said: "People aren’t born to dehumanize, right? People dehumanize because A, it comes at no cost, and B, because they are given frameworks of thinking that encourage them to do that. I think we should think about it the same way as you know, maybe a lot of the American mainstream public was dehumanizing Afghans and Iraqis earlier this century, to me dehumanizing mentalities are a sort of discursive symptom of actual power imbalances. It's a mechanism for people to self-legitimate, to give themselves some kind of way of reconciling their desired self-image as good people with the fact that atrocities are being committed in their name. And the way to reconcile that is to portray the victims of those atrocities as uniformly threatening, menacing, dangerous enemies who are forever ill-disposed to agreement and motivated by hatred and by anti-Semitism and the rest of it, which can become a self-fulfilling prophecy."
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mohammed-bamyeh-uri-gordon-the-no-state-solution
Omer Bartov wrote about the need of Jewish Israelis to believe in their national morality and to nourish #victimhood: 
"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov
"Unlike the majority of @israel -is these young people had seen the destruction of #Gaza with their own eyes. It seemed to me that they had not only internalised a particular view that has become commonplace in Israel – namely, that the destruction of Gaza as such was a legitimate response to 7 October – but had also developed a way of thinking that I had observed many years ago when studying the conduct, worldview and self-perception of German army soldiers in the second world war. Having internalised certain views of the enemy – the Bolsheviks as Untermenschen; Hamas as human animals – and of the wider population as less than human and undeserving of rights, soldiers observing or perpetrating atrocities tend to ascribe them not to their own military, or to themselves, but to the enemy."
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"Thousands of children were killed? It’s the enemy’s fault. Our own children were killed? That is certainly the enemy’s fault. If Hamas carry out a massacre in a kibbutz, they are Nazis. If we drop 2,000-pound bombs on refugee shelters and kill hundreds of civilians, it’s Hamas’s fault for hiding close to these shelters. After what they did to us, we have no choice but to root them out. After what we did to them, we can only imagine what they would do to us if we don’t destroy them. We simply have no choice."
Omer Bartov: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov
"Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only novelty is the scale"
Joseph Massad: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israeli-atrocities-are-nothing-new-only-novelty-scale
'It is overwhelming for people to see and recognize the #genocide not only because it is reminiscent of the same forms of genocide we witnessed in Bosnia and Kosovo but also because the same tactics of dehumanization and mass murder are deployed in the ostensibly “defense” of “civilization” from “terrorism.” The destruction of people, lives, land, and cultural and religious sites are working out in the same way they did in the 1990s and their justifications are anchored in Islamophobic, racist, and colonial articulations of mass murder in the name of Western liberalism.'
https://lefteast.org/yesterday-srebrenica-today-gaza/ via @Clapotis
@estelle Your only choice is to destroy people??????? Have you thought of leaving their country, stop ocuping and return to wherever you came from????? Or do you come from such a sick sect that consider you can rob and loot whatever you want???? Nothing justifies your crimes, nothing.