It’s so hard to get our heads around this — we are so heavily trained to think about conflicts in nationalist terms — that even when •know• Hamas and Likud want each other, we •still• fall into the trap of trying to figure out which nation’s team to be on.
I thus propose a thought exercise: re-analyze this moment treating “Likud-Hamas” as a single party, a coalition for genocide standing in opposition tot he coalition for peace.
An oversimplification, but as an exercise, it’s instructive.
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