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powerclown's narrative manages somehow to erase the fact of occupation. so the claims concerning poverty and their correlate in some strange essentialist distinction between the violent and non-violent end up being cast as eternal conditions.
if one integrates empirical and/or historical reality into this circular, self-justifying narrative, the sole function of which is to justify anything and everything the israeli right does--you'd end up in a position quite far from where powerclown himself does.
if you're going to tell "historical" narratives, there are rules. including factors that have for over 40 years now fundamentally conditioned the cycle within which the factoids you adduce have happened is a rule. if you don't do it, you're making fables and that's all you're doing.
similarly, it is self-evident that what an organization's official line is and what it's unofficial lines might be in negociation can be entirely different, and that it is somewhere between amateruish and disengenuous to pretend the contrary,
the sole reason for including the bit about saudi money going to unrwa is to delegitimate information coming from that organization about what israel is doing on the ground. i call bullshit on the move.
there's 40 years of debacle to show that the dominant approaches to this situation have produced nothing but suffering on both sides, violence on both sides. the logic itself is the problem---the logic that has shaped these approaches.
i see nothing but repetitions of that same logic from the folk who support anything and everything the israeli right puts into motion, who can excuse what's happening in gaza because they prefer to look at some pseudo-historical story that departs from and leads back to "kill em all and let god sort em out"
971 dead.
4,418 injured.
every once in a while through the fog of disinformation, these numbers are broken down into plausible fighter vs children, women, and (only sometimes) the elderly.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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