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Vulpeculae's avatar

Thank you for this piece! It should be broadcast straight into the heads of everyone who thinks this genocide is simply an issue of leadership, as if denouncing Netanyahu is enough. People are now attempting to absolve themselves of their previous complicity and silence, but scarcely any of them have the courage to address the deeper issue at hand, as you have in this article! Looking forward to your next one.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

For me the following paragraph tells me that western leaders are not fit to govern.

"Yet perhaps the most damning indictment of this systematic dehumanization is not what it reveals about Israeli society, but what it exposes about the broader Western world that enables it. Even as the death toll in Gaza reaches over 62,000 Palestinians—with estimates suggesting the true number may exceed 80,000 when accounting for undercounting—even as 57 children have died from malnutrition since March alone, even as 71,000 children under five are expected to suffer acute malnutrition over the next year, the Western response remains one of calculated indifference dressed up as concern. When three-quarters of Gaza's population faces emergency or catastrophic food deprivation, when 15.6% of children under two in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished, when babies are dying of starvation while their mothers collapse from hunger, the West's primary concern remains Israel's "right to defend itself." This is not political calculation—this is the arithmetic of racism, the cold logic of who counts as human and who does not."

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