Palestinians are “Human Shields” — and We Have to Kill Them
On Exposing the Genocidal West’s License to Murder
This is part of The Collapse of Zionism collection.
The West has often given itself license to murder millions of civilians in pursuit of a “righteous” or “just” war. But today, we have greater access to information and a far more nuanced and critical perspective on state power.
Wars no longer happen in some distant land. The dead are no longer just numbers. “The Enemy” is no longer simply a cartoon on stage, page and screen.
With the advent of photography, the truth of imperial conquest was brought into homes. Dylan Evans has a couple of great pieces about how the coverage of Algeria and Vietnam both brought the horror of “war” crashing into everyone’s living rooms and magazines. The Mai Lai massacre affected US public perception especially — check out his piece on how Israel is Worse Than Nazi Germany.
The killing of people now all unfolds on the internet (as it did when Wikileaks released the infamous and troubling footage of American soldiers massacring civilians) or more recently it plays out in the palm of our hands, as it has especially with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
