« Il y aura la #sécurité pour tous le jour où il y aura la #justice pour chacun. Comme je le dis toujours, découvrir l’#humanité de votre #ennemi, sa noblesse, est un désastre, parce qu’il n’est plus votre ennemi, il ne peut plus l’être »

in: #ColumMcCann, #Apeirogon, Belfond, 2020, p.336.

« Mais je suis #juif. J’ai un grand amour pour ma culture et mon peuple, et je sais que dominer, opprimer et occuper, ce n’est pas juif. Etre juif, ça veut dire respecter la #justice et l’#équité. Aucun peuple ne peut dominer un autre peuple et obtenir la #paix et la #sécurité. L’#Occupation n’est ni juste ni soutenable. Et être contre l’Occupation n’est en aucun cas une forme d’#antisémitisme. »

in #ColumMcCann, #Apeirogon, Belfond, 2020, p.320.

#livre #citation

« La vérité, c’est qu’il ne peut y avoir d’#occupation humaine. Ça n’existe tout simplement pas. Ce n’est pas possible. Tout est une question de #contrôle. »

in: #ColumMcCann, #Apeirogon, Belfond, 2020, p.318.

#citation #livre

« Tout est #geographie. »

#ColumMcCann, #Apeirogon, Belfond, 2020, p.119.

#citation #livre

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So you started a thread on an emotional issue but want to be left alone?

I get it.
#Apeirogon, by Colum McCann. We're all messy.

#Israel / “Apeirogon” as a parable …

The legal advisor of the #Haifa Municipality, Attorney Yemima Klein, sent a letter yesterday (Sunday) to the CEO of Beit Hagefen, Asaf Ron, urgently requesting to convene a meeting of the center's board of directors, regarding holding an event launching the book "#Apeirogon". Beit Hagefen is an Arab-Jewish cultural center, which was founded as a pioneer in the field of intercultural dialogue in 1963, and operates in the fields of culture, art, education and tourism.

[…] The book is a fictionalised account of the men, one Israeli, one Palestinian, whose daughters were killed near Jerusalem 10 years apart. Rami Elhanan, who is Israeli, lost his teenager Smadar to a suicide bombing that occurred while she was shopping with friends in 1997. Abir, the 10-year-old daughter of Bassam Aramin, who is Palestinian, was fatally shot by an Israeli soldier in 2007. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/colum-mccann-on-israel-palestine-i-was-completely-ignorant-of-what-was-going-on-1.4178491

[…] In a letter sent by the families of those murdered in the attack on Moriah Boulevard on February 1 to Mayor Einat Kalisch-Rotem, they wrote: "We are bereaved families who lost our children and loved ones in the bombing of bus 37 in Haifa in March 2003. We protest against the book launch event of ‘Apeirogon’ at Beit Hagefen on February 15. In our opinion, the event is controversial, and incitement is incitement."

[…] The legal advisor demands that the board examine the appropriateness of holding the event in two respects. The first is that according to her the event has a "commercial nature in municipal property".

[…] The second aspect relates to "concerns of harming the public of casualties of hostilities in the city of Haifa." The letter of inquiry from the legal advisor was accompanied by an appeal from the families of those killed in the attack on Moriah Boulevard.

#Haaretz [Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/literature/2024-02-05/ty-article/.premium/0000018d-787e-d4f1-a18d-fc7e5f360000 or https://archive.is/Xgjkp

@bookstodon
@israel
@palestine
#IsraelUsaHamasWar

#FailureIsGuaranteed

Setting up to run a bead of silicone caulking around a vanity unit.
And then another up a doorjam.

The question is not "Will I fail?", but rather, "Will my failures be highly significant?"

The cracks, it's how the light gets in.

God loves imperfections.

We're all messy. #Apeirogon

See you on the other side.

There is a book I haven't read.

#Apeirogon

'Bout a coupla guys whose kids got killed and who've come together to try and get less kids killed.

One thing they hold to is that humans are messy.

#Messy as in "make mistakes", "have biases", "aren't consistent", "get swept away by feelings", "have destructive motivations well up", "have violent urges", ...

If we're working with other humans then things are going to be messy quite often.

Contrast this with rage-farming?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TooOTITvrk0