An Israeli security source monitored the aftermath of an airstrike in which children were burned alive: "Her daughter was still alive, she was begging for someone to come and save her. You could hear the ambulances trying to get in, and you don’t let them enter."

"There are those who refused to believe, or believed only for brief moments. . . . We pretend it all happened only once, at a given time and place." The French poet Jean Cayrol, seven decades ago:

Compare the Washington Post's "fact checking" with the below facts: therevealer.org/suffer-the-c...

An insight of Fredric Jameson's (1996) helps cast the notion of "culture war" in a completely different light.

Seymour Hersh: "I was told this week by a well-informed Washington official that the Israeli leadership will formally annex the West Bank in the very near future—perhaps in two weeks." seymourhersh.substack.com/p/force-evac...

Abdullah al-Haj recounted being trapped in a hospital under Israeli siege. "I reached the point where I was talking to the corpses." www.nytimes.com/card/2024/11...

In Times Opinion is an essay about the Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah, written by his friend, the novelist Ahmed Naji, himself once a political prisoner.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/o...

For Times Opinion, I wrote on California's decision to maintain a system of prison slavery:

"Even in the liberal stronghold of the West Coast, punitive ideas about crime, class and race continue to rationalize extreme social inequality."

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...