On 14/07/2025 08:33, Oliver Gassner via nettime-l wrote:
Nope, "WE" did not forget that.
I opted for more aspects to be included in the argument.
It is somewhat sad if that is rejected.
Both sides are at fault.
In a genocide, for the simple person, the ordinary human, it seems
somewhat reasonable to choose sides.
Conversely, would it be reasonable to say something like: Well, the Jews
had banking connections, so they were also at fault for the Holocaust?
At any rate, West Asia has been a battle ground and frontier for
European identity, trade routes and colonialism for a thousand years.
Richard Lionheart was the good guy, right?
Palestine is not merely about Hamas and IDF. That's just a contemporary
snapshot.
As Pankaj Mishra (more or less) says: Palestine today signifies the
collapse of the western world/word order.
In that vein, the genocide becomes a systemic inevitability, a convulsion.
The emperor is not naked yet -- but his fine fabric of moral
superiority, Reason, rule of law, is nothing but war, and in flames.
Then we prepare to build from love, with care, in the ashes...
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