Gaza is a 'textbook genocide'.

[The Magistrate]

72. I Am, Quite Focused

Not one bomb would have been dropped in Gaza, not one person there killed, save for the campaign of sadistic murder engaged in by Hamas on October 7.

There's really not much else to say about it. Certainly nothing to be said that hasn't been said for decades, by all parties and all those who align with them. The problem remains the same: the balance of power is asymmetric. The force weakest in conventional terms seeks to equalize matters by establishing itself among a mass of non-combatants, who, it can be argued plausibly, at need, don't even particularly support the gunmen sheltering among them. Since any attempt to engage gunmen thus situated must bring harm to people who aren't, great lashings of outrage can be whipped up at actions taken by the militarily stronger party when need to engage the gunmen becomes acute. This acute need the gunmen take care to provide by atrocious attacks on their enemy's civilian population. It's a foul business, even when done in a good cause.


"The fact that have-nots exist in despair, discrimination and deprivation does not automatically endow them with any special qualities of charity, justice, wisdom, mercy or moral purity. They are people, with all the faults of people — greed, envy, suspicion, intolerance — and once they get on top they can be just as bigoted as the people who once oppressed them."