Quotations

Jim Valvano:

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

Haruki Murakami, "Kafka on the Shore":

"A deserted library in the morning – there’s something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully. I want to do what I can to preserve this place, keep it neat and tidy. Sometimes I come to a halt and gaze at all the books on the stacks, reach out and touch the spines of a few." 

Robert Graves, Grotesques:

Caitlin Johnstone today.

It's just bananas how the hasbara machine keeps trying to spin Lebanese people firing upon hostile invaders inside Lebanon as some kind of unwarranted act of aggression.

After the 2024 "ceasefire", Israel attacked Lebanon on a daily basis; this happened for months on end without a single Hezbollah response. The mass-scale murdering resumed after Hezbollah fired a few rockets when the US and Israel launched the war on Iran, following month after month after month of daily IDF attacks on southern Lebanon.

Hasbarists keep trying to frame this as Israel going in to protect itself from unprovoked attacks by "terrorists", but the violence has been unbelievably one-sided by Israeli forces, with Hezbollah exhibiting remarkable restraint. 

Israel is very clearly and undeniably the aggressor here, and it's absolutely hilarious that we're being asked to view them as innocent little victims when they're attacked by Lebanese men in Lebanon during an active military invasion.

Sunday Times headline today (what did Israelis expect?)

'A diplomatic October 7’: Israelis across the spectrum denounce deal