@Shanfaraa @jasonintrator No, let's not. Responsibility for the Palestine catastrophe remains ours to own, as is the immediate requirement to arrest the cataclysm there. The accelerating lurch toward limitless war? A mimetic, global phenomenon. As is the fix: only planetary peace will claim the Holy Land.
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While we have so far been too preoccupied with its many symptoms to realize it, what we are witnessing is the passing of a historical epoch during which the sacrificial mechanism for resolving violence, violently, still functioned. 5/
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"People all over the world are employing intellectual, moral, and rhetorical ingenuity in an effort to endow the violence they favor with culture-founding authority, and all over the world they are failing” - Gil Bailie 7/
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The ‘sacred violence’ at the heart of all “the kingdoms of this world” is no longer distinguishable from the counter-violence it opposes. The reciprocities of violence and counter-violence threaten to spin completely out of control. 6/
@iyad_elbaghdadi An ongoing, inter-generational cycle of violence and trauma born directly of an inter-generational cycle of violence and trauma against world Jewry. A universal, global, trans-cultural pattern of violence and trauma, repeating itself. Where does it end?
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