"there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future...a terrible thing is happening to you now"
Another brutal but necessary book about a genocide happening in front of our faces. At first glance, the title might suggest a future reckoning, but Omar El Akkad is insistent on demonstrating what is happening to the world now. It will be reckoned with in the future, but that does not lessen the impact today, on Gaza and on those who are allowing it to happen.
"It is difficult to live in [the U.S.] in this moment and not come to the conclusion that the principal concern of the modern American liberal is, at all times, not what one does or believes or supports or opposes, but what one is seen to be." (117)
Another brutal but necessary book about a genocide happening in front of our faces. At first glance, the title might suggest a future reckoning, but Omar El Akkad is insistent on demonstrating what is happening to the world now. It will be reckoned with in the future, but that does not lessen the impact today, on Gaza and on those who are allowing it to happen.
"It is difficult to live in [the U.S.] in this moment and not come to the conclusion that the principal concern of the modern American liberal is, at all times, not what one does or believes or supports or opposes, but what one is seen to be." (117)
