Ori Goldberg on Nostr: I write about the experience of living in a genocidal society. I realize the need to ...

I write about the experience of living in a genocidal society. I realize the need to share prescriptions for "solutions" with me, starting with "go back to Europe" and ending with "fill your car with food and water and drive towards Gaza until you are stopped". I will do neither. I think both are attempts to make the genocide personal, a way of saying "I'm not a part of this". Thing is, I am a part of this.

I don't hold with penance as an antidote to evil. I don't think recusing myself from the horrors perpetrated by Israel serves to stop the horrors or to establish my credibility. I don't want to establish anything. I will not deign to speak for the Palestinians. I cannot, and will not, document the genocide. I will certainly not speak for Israel and for Israelis. I will try to be a human being, deeply flawed by nature. I will respond. I will attempt to embrace good and reject evil. At times I will be angry, at times cynical, at times silent. I cannot and will not satisfy or please. I have no desire to prove anything. The evil is apparent and requires no astute analysis. I will hope my words can cross the abyss that rightfully separates Israel from the world. I will write them even if they don't. They not a tool or a weapon. They are the most basic expression of my existence. Sharing them is the only way I know of acknowledging and embracing all other human beings.