"In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier."

@lrb.co.uk

"The question of Palestine now figures almost as prominently in American politics as the Jewish question did when European democracies faced the threat of fascism" [...] "‘The Gaza war offered a chance for clarity, honesty and introspection,’ [...] ‘because it was when everything got out of hand.’"

"No word, in the last few years, has made such an outsized contribution to the attack on academic and intellectual freedom, or to acts of repression, arrests and deportation" [...] "Anti-antisemitism now serves the purpose antisemitism (and anticommunism) once did."

"‘If the US had attacked Iran first, we would have condemned it,’ one told him. ‘But because it’s Israel, it’s much harder’"

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"the inability of Western powers to condemn Israel’s conduct – much less bring it to an end – has made a mockery of the rules-based order that they claim to uphold"

The heavily damaged Al-Rafei Elementary School A & B for Boys and the destroyed Al-Omari Mosque are also visible.
Previous geolocation of the destroyed mosque by @chrisosieck.bsky.social: x.com/ChrisOsieck/...

[...] "Israeli achievements in technical intelligence, cyberattacks, pager detonations, precision killings, mass civilian carnage, and more, may point the way to methods that will be employed by all and sundry. Signs are visible already."

"...will not fail to remember the horrors that befell Gaza, the bombings of their cities, the massacres, the shame, the killings of their leaders, the West’s duplicity, hypocrisy, and moral desolation."

SG Guterres should rename the position to, "Envoy to the occupied Palestinian territories".

It would send an important signal, that there is no political process and the international community needs to act if it wants one. Right now it is just a fig leaf that feeds into international inaction