“I saw bodies everywhere. Children burning. I saw heads without bodies, the injured running around in pain, some alive but trapped inside burning tents.”
~ Zuhair, a lawyer sheltering in a tent in Rafah with his family, on the Israel attack on the tent camp
"Where is Joe Biden’s fury about decapitated Palestinian babies? Politicians parroted untrue rumors that Hamas had beheaded Israeli babies. When the children are Palestinian, they shrug."
John Ganz, who says that loving books has always been the definition of Jewishness for him as a Jew, reflects on images of Israeli soldiers burning books in light of Heinrich Heine's oft-quoted statement that where people burn books, they'll end up burning people. Heine's observation took on gruesome meaning when the Nazis inaugurated their reign of terror by burning books.