The purpose of a system is what it does.
“There is no point in claiming that the purpose of a system
is to do what it constantly fails to do.”
— Stafford Beer
“How does a war on Hamas kill of 12,000 children?
A war that kills thousands of children is a war on children”
— @w5ssim
“The president, different from his graphic description of Hamas’s horrific attack on Israel … has rarely talked about the Palestinian children torn to pieces, or the hundreds of thousands of people without water or food. … He talks about [Palestinians] as if they’re victims of an earthquake or natural disaster, without tying them to the actions of the Israeli government with his support and backing.”
— Shibley Telhami, Middle East scholar at the University of Maryland
The Pale Notebook 