1/ There is nothing inherently evil about Zionists; there is nothing inherently evil about Germans; there is nothing inherently evil about Iranians; there is nothing inherently evil about Belgians or about the British. Evil is not inherent. Evil takes root and grows. --->
2/ What is evil, abhorrent and unacceptable, is the acceptance, the averted gaze and, finally the pleasure taken in the rotten fruit. The corruption is evil, slow and methodical, until putrescence seems an essentail condition of reality. Evil is not retrospective. --->
3/ A prominent feature of corruption is the ability to ignore physical reality in defense of unfulfilled principle. "You say nearly 300 Palestinians died in order to free 4 Israeli hostages? Why aren't you calling Hamas out for keeping hostages among civilians?" --->
4/ No need to go into detail about the duplicity of the argument. Suffice it to say that had these hostages been kept in tunnels Israel would have cried havoc and declared its multidimensional destruction of Gaza necessary and legitimate. That is not the point. --->
5/ The point is that hundreds died and were injured. The point is that Israel (and the US) showed no concern for Palestinian lives as they mounted the operation and certainly not in its aftermath. Dead, dismembered children and women and men lying in the ruined market. --->
6/ That is not a matter for interpretation. This was the most gruesome, horrific death, intentionally wrought. Israel could have reunited the hostages with their families, sighed in relief, even smiled quietly. But Israel could not have really done this. Israel is corrupt. --->
7/ The genocide is a product of this corruption. The evil that dug deep and grew tall is the evil of the occupation. This isn't, as Israelis like to say, a war that we won. It is in many ways the opposite of war's chaos and uncertainty. The Nakba generates certainty. --->
8/ The decades over which Israelis have become masters, oblivious even to the physical life and death of the Palestinians, these are evil. The will of the world to ignore the Palestinians, affirming not just Israel with their blind eye but global injustice, this is evil. --->
9/ It isn't about the abstract principle. It is about the pretense of enhancing life while choosing and unleashing death. Death through erasure, through suffocation, death by squeezing, death by a million cuts, death as the default option; death as quiet as a dormouse. --->
10/ 8 months have served as a magnifying glass, focusing the Israeli beam targeted at the Palestinians. The massacre on October 7th was evil. It came after long years of concentration and planning in besieged Gaza, perfect conditions for festering. Israel is different. --->
11/ Relentless, driven by a broad consensus, Israel's genocide has become "a fact of life", effectively if reluctantly condoned. The genocide has long engulfed Israel as a whole. We refuse to see it because it is us.
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