"Some images touch and wound the soul at its center. A human face that inspires at the same time both desire and the dread of approaching it, because of the fear of harming it, whose change we cannot imagine, and whose extreme fragility we intensely feel, which tears up our soul by the roots, and which makes us sense that we are nailed to it, is that kind of image." -- Simone Weil
This morning, the Palestinian liberation group known as Hamas released a (beautifully formatted) statement regarding October 7th and the genocidal, Nazi State of Israel (and its people).