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niksnook's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Colonisation
Moderate: Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Death, Rape, Child death, Genocide, Racism, Antisemitism, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and War
walkingcha0s's review
4.75
Graphic: Genocide, Religious bigotry, Violence, Racism, War, Gun violence, Colonisation, Death, Physical abuse, Murder, Child death, Islamophobia, Rape, Sexual violence, and Torture
yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Body horror, Torture, Blood, Deportation, Genocide, Police brutality, Racism, and Rape
Moderate: Colonisation, War, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Slavery
Minor: Gore and Pedophilia
xwritingstoriesx's review against another edition
4.75
"Since the beginning of the Intifada in September 2000 over 2,500 children have been arrested."
I also just learned that the Israeli military has arrested over 13,000 minors between 2000 and 2024. Given what I've been reading, I sincerely doubt that these children are treated well. To grow up in an open air prison and then to suffer from further unlawful detainment, I cannot even begin to imagine what the long-term effects are.
"The biological unit he (Ephrahim Katzir) led together with his brother Aharon started working seriously in February. Its main objective was to create a weapon that could blind people. . . Katzir suggested using it on human beings."
"The Jewish soldiers who took part in the massacre also reported horrific scenes: babies whose skulls were cracked open, women raped or burned alive."
Innocent babies and children oppressed under such a horrific regime that they do not live to survive it.
The final quote which is the very worst of all, recounts the rape, torture and murder of an innocent twelve year old child.
"On 12 August 1949, a platoon of soldiers in the Negev. . . captured a twelve-year-old Palestinian girl and locked her up for the night in their military base near the Kibbutz. For the next few days she became the platoon's sex slave as the soldiers shaved her head, gang-raped her and in the end murdered her. . . On 29 October 2003, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz publicised the story based on the testimonies of the rapists: twenty two soldiers had taken part in the barbaric torture and execution of the girl."
What I've read over the last few days has turned my stomach. These people and their descendants get to live a life of privilege, serving little to no time for their crimes against innocent civilians and it is high time that justice is served. Free Palestine.
Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Child abuse, Genocide, Islamophobia, Child death, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, War, and Xenophobia
aloozahra's review
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Child death, Antisemitism, War, Genocide, Islamophobia, Hate crime, and Colonisation
ofbooksandechos's review against another edition
Graphic: Racism, Colonisation, and Genocide
Moderate: Islamophobia, Sexual assault, Violence, Child death, Confinement, Police brutality, Rape, and War
Minor: Pedophilia
matcha_cat's review
4.0
Graphic: Genocide, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Islamophobia, Racism, Colonisation, and War
Moderate: Gun violence, Child death, Violence, Death, and Murder
Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, and Sexual violence
siasprout's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual violence, Genocide, Rape, Colonisation, Racism, Child death, Xenophobia, War, Torture, Islamophobia, and Religious bigotry
lizziaha's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: War, Child death, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Islamophobia, Racism, Rape, Murder, Violence, and Deportation
bibliodiversidad's review against another edition
4.5
Es, sin lugar a dudas, un libro completamente necesario de leer por más desgarrador; es imposible seguir ocultando una realidad irracional y desaforada como la que pretende reescribir el movimiento sionista.
A pesar de la trepidación que supo generar esta lectura (y la actual situación en Palestina), me incitó a priorizar el estudio del caso que engloba Israel y sionismo, judaísmo, cristianismo, capitalismo, colonización, etc. Y si bien me quedo con un mal gusto en la boca al terminar el libro, no es por nada en absoluto culpa de Pappe, más bien, me da un poco de alivio y, a la vez, me hace sentir peor cuanto supo humanizar a los palestinos nativos, reconocer y honorar sus historias, aunque a eso le siguiera la tragedia.
Espero que muchísima más gente se digne a leer este libro de una buena vez y sepan reconocer la ilegitimidad ética de un Estado colonial tanto como fue y sigue siendo en las historias de todos los continentes y países invadidos, explotados y genocidados del mundo.
Graphic: Deportation, Colonisation, War, Genocide, Hate crime, Child death, Racism, Xenophobia, and Cultural appropriation
Moderate: Torture, Islamophobia, Rape, and Sexual violence
Minor: Police brutality