Note, these are real accounts from Abu Saif’s diary entries during the 2014 Gaza war.
In the forward to the book of the same name, a collection of ten short stories, Noam Chomsky wrote: ‘This tragedy is heightened by the recognition that it is not a force of nature that must simply be endured, a conflict so complex that no escape can be found. Those who wish to know understand well how the horrors can be ended, how Gaza can become a flourishing seaside region of a land at peace, its courageous people free to live their lives as they have every right to do with the prison walls shattered. Further explanation seems only to sully what Atef Abu Saif conveys with such simple dignity and eloquence.’
Hi Mek, Thanks for sharing this. I finally got to it. It’s such beautiful writing. Difficult to read. Makes me sad. It’s devastating, really. I guess that’s why writing can be so powerful. And political. (Not always, of course.) Because it’s not just about asking someone to put themselves in your shoes, it’s asking them to be dispositioned in a feeling of relation with the speaker... (among other things). Kristen
Hi Mek, Thanks for sharing this. I finally got to it. It’s such beautiful writing. Difficult to read. Makes me sad. It’s devastating, really. I guess that’s why writing can be so powerful. And political. (Not always, of course.) Because it’s not just about asking someone to put themselves in your shoes, it’s asking them to be dispositioned in a feeling of relation with the speaker... (among other things). Kristen