05.08.2015 - 07:32 [ Mondo Weiss ]

The normal horrors

(1.August) The understandable and demonstrated shock following yesterday’s events (the burning of a toddler and the wounding of members of his family, and the stabbings in the Pride parade) must not blind us. The great horrors that the State of Israel is involved in are not in the outbursts of rage by extremists. They’re committed routinely, in all spheres of life: in the occupation – on a normal day; in the siege – on a normal day; in the collapse of welfare – as a by-product of routine acts; in the gas plan – through a procedure carried out under the aegis of the law; in the murder of refugees –by means of ministries and authorities that have become a resolute machine of extermination.