Begrudging Recluse"Within this framework of exclusion, where a population is rendered rightless, invisible, and subjected to permanent misery and isolation, the normalization of such practices, coupled with international inaction and indifference, allow a regime like Israel’s to exploit the state of exception in Gaza to test weapons, surveillance technologies, and political strategies of isolation and marginalization.
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In the face of normalizing Gaza’s state of exception, and against the backdrop of consigning Gaza – and other Palestinian communities – to a perpetual hell of subjugation and oppression, sanitized by Israel’s manipulation, falsehoods, and continual efforts to trivialize Palestinian suffering, Gaza has stood up to reject the indefinite normalization of such a reality. For two million people to be consigned to a limbo of institutionalized marginalization and exclusion is untenable.
What lessons did Israel and its allies learn from Gaza’s uprising? They responded with increased violence, more killings, and greater destruction. For them, the notion that their blueprint for eternally subjecting people to blockade, isolation, and recurrent violence, while stripping them of their rights, could fail was inconceivable. Therefore, they shifted from their implicit and subtle tactics of control and violence to explicit, large-scale annihilation of life and its manifestations in Gaza – a conflagration that, if unchecked, is likely to spread to other parts of Palestine and potentially the wider region."
A short, interesting read. The mentioned essay from 2021 as well. Horrific precedents are being set by what's being allowed to happen, and I think many of us are not only feeling despondent because of all of the suffering in Gaza, but also because of the realization of what this is going to mean for so many more people, sooner rather than later.
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