Ho Hum, Another Apartment Building Demolished

Mostly it's the Israelis that get the video coverage.

It's unnerving - to me - that a country can decide to do whatever it is that they are able to do that disintegrates an apartment building in some other country.

With impunity.

But every night we see it on - the last bastion - PBS NewsHour.

We see Israel bringing down multi story apartment buildings and killing the apartments' occupants.

I have a problem with that.

But, of course, there is the holocaust.

OK.

That's real; that happened; that's unforgiveable. 

But did it create some six million or so ledger entries of human lives that the Israelis are able now, 80 years later, to draw upon?

To pursue their current purification project?

Has the world converted the horror that they - the now Israeli, but previously European, Jews - uniquely experienced under Hitler - to a carte blanche quota of Palestinian and Lebanese lives that the Israelis - the descendants of that horror - can, and apparently should (they believe) remove from existence?

Up to six million?

There are only about two million Gazan Arabs.

When they are gone do the Israelis have carte blanche for four million more somewhere?

Where?

And who?

And is that quota kinda like a hunting license?

I guess it is.

I guess also that questioning such as I have indulged myself here - wondering how one horror gives carte blanche to that horror's victims to, therefore, unleash their own version of that same old horror on some other group - is antisemitic.

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Anyway, that seems to be - at least it so seems to me - what is happening.

"Ho Hum", has said the world as the Israelis have killed, last time I heard a count, 75,000, with hundreds more daily, killed in the ceasefire.

And those ceasefire dead are not included in the grand total, because there is a ceasefire; so, nobody gets killed.

Officially.

"Ho Hum", has said the world as those same Israelis conduct invasion and demolition of a hapless adjacent country.

Lebanon.

Demolishing apartments and killing thousands.

To build a medieval concepted thing: a buffer zone.

I just can't get there.

But then, I have never cared if Bi Bi goes to prison for corruption.

Although I would like it to be for war crimes if he ever goes.

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I started talking about this issue on the day after, the Hammas massacre, 8 October 2023.

I was angry when I did that.

I am much angrier now.

Here are links to those twelve posts.

It's my Gaza Primer.