Reposted by burgerpanini
The greatest global threat to both peace and a habitable planet is the government of the USA. It has been so for a long time, but Trump has nixed the deniability. We should stop treating it as an ally that has mysteriously gone astray and start treating it as a hazard to be avoided and contained.
![A. Those who wage war often conceive of those they annihilate as lives that were not worth living anyway. They don't grieve the loss of those lives when they are killed because they are not considered to be valuable lives. Palestinians are being regarded as threats to Israeli life, not as living beings. Once a group of people has been so dehumanized that they no longer count among the community of humans, then the pathway is cleared toward genocidal action. And what we're seeing in
Gaza are genocidal actions.
Q. Not quite a genocide... A. A genocidal action is one that not only targets a very specific ethnic or racial group, but also the infrastructures of life. Raphael Lemkin, who devised the doctrine of
genocide in 1944, was very clear about that. Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur
on ralestine for the U.N
., accepts his
definition for the current condition in Gaza. So I think what we are seeing is genocidal conduct. What's harder for people to fathom is that these kinds of tactics and this form of killing, of forcible dispossession, did not start in retaliation for the killings of October 7[2023] but have been component parts of Israeli state violence since 1948 [when the
state of Israel was created].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mpgrcbcjq7rq3qemfy3ldi5g/bafkreib3gta7xc2xu4vqzja2lmkitqbtqborpmct4lsctxv46nboktfoxq)
