Hiroshima 1945. A target-poor environment.
A target-rich environment
What Israel's use of AI in the killing of Palestinians implies for the future of repression.
Watching a murder-suicide
As soon as Israel made it clear that its goal, following the October 7 Hamas attack, was more or less a total purging of Gaza, that no two-state solution to its forever war against Palestinians would be countenanced and that there was no upper limit to the death and destruction it was willing to inflict, the words that sprang into my mind were “murder-suicide”. Somehow the assault on Gaza seemed of a type with other Israeli doctrines, like the “Hannibal directive” – where it is better to kill your own people than let them be taken…
Peter Lewis's response to the latest round of violence.
The Nakba and the ghost of Yitzhak Rabin
Opinion by Greg Ray. October 11, 2023 About the middle of last week, before the Hamas attack on Israel, I had a dream about Palestinians. This is unusual since I am by no means deeply invested in the Israel/Palestine issue, though I have often thought about it. In the dream I was in a park and a group of people I somehow knew were Palestinians (dreams are like that) were sitting at a picnic table and having a conversation. The people looked suspicious and unhappy. I thought I should go and talk to them because I…