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Ceasefire?

We desperately hope that these are now the last days of the unrestrained genocidal rampage that has continued unabated for two years. Some level of violence will certainly continue, because the only thing that has really changed is that Israel has become more brazen after witnessing the world’s indifference to its acts. There is no new psychological shift towards peace. Vis-à-vis the Palestinians, there is probably even greater surety that “if we did what we did to them, they will surely want to treat us the same, if we give them half a chance”. That’s how the cycle works.

As for the rest of the world, I don’t know how long it will take, if this thing winds down, for people’s attention to move away, and for amnesia to set in. We tend to forget about crimes in which we, or our own identity groups, are complicit. It is more convenient.

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