“Watching a genocide livestreamed while being unable to do a thing to prevent it has traumatised people. We need to take this trauma seriously and understand that the recovery of Palestine is a recovery for everyone who watched her destruction. “

“….without pretending that we never did have those hopes, those ethics, that belief that we would never see anything like this revisited on a people. We must not collapse into the denial of melancholia by denying the loss of life and love and hope that we were better than this. We weren’t.”

“Assuming, of course, Israel’s ambition of ethnic cleansing — put in harness by President Trump’s vision for a resort style US/Israel — does not succeed.”

“The first is that this revelation will be felt as a moment of deep and bewildering shame for us – the West, the silent voices, the leadership that prevaricated. Us. And we need to handle this fragile moment very carefully, because shamed people can quickly become defensive and furious people.”

“This is where we collectively exclaim that we had no idea the number was so high — it will be 100,000 or even higher — that the starvation was more extensive than most realised and that if we had known the full extent of the slaughter we would have/should have acted.”

“The world is fast approaching the moment when independent reporters and observers will enter Gaza. Rather than tanks, it will be bulldozers that reveal the true cost, as the rubble is removed and the body count of this most recent genocide is made known.”

...wait for IDF soldiers' delayed mental trauma legacy takes effect...

These young men will never be the same again.

...and young women/potential mothers...and guess whose blame it will not be...?