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"By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions."

It was almost exactly 10 years ago that I first reported in @972mag on how the Israeli army was as spraying herbicide on farm lands in Gaza. https://t.co/Yi38gNCRfX

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Settler terror devastates West Bank olive harvest Israeli military restrictions and over 150 settler attacks in the past two weeks have prevented many Palestinians from harvesting this year’s crop. @OrenZiv_ and @basel_adra report. @mekomit https://t.co/gJQgUBVwkl

'For two years, one question stalked me day and night: Would I live to see the end of this genocidal war? I felt death closing in on me as Israeli forces escalated their attacks on Gaza City. I vowed never to flee, but was ultimately left with no choice'

PODCAST: Reckoning or reverting? Israeli society after the ceasefire @dahliasc explores the lessons Israelis are drawing from two years of war, and explains why international pressure is the only path to a political settlement. Listen now 🎙️ https://t.co/BZMlKMUBq0

Rubble, gangs, and airstrikes: What was waiting for me back in Gaza City I couldn’t wait to return north after the ceasefire. But the joy of being home quickly gave way to yet more uncertainty and fear. By Ahmed Ahmed. https://t.co/KDy9qHW5lg

“For decades, ceasefires & so-called peace plans in Gaza have been used as instruments of control to de-escalate rather than confront causes of conflict: siege, displacement & occupation,” ⁦writes ⁦@MushtahaW⁩. “This iteration is no different.”

**** Recommended Why the destruction of Gaza City - thousands of years old - is a crime against history

The mission-driven mentality fragments the destruction of a people and place into thousands of isolated acts, each justified on its own terms, none acknowledged as part of a larger campaign of genocide. By @yuval_abraham @mekomit https://t.co/S2VMrHlNiE

"By understanding each act of violence as a discrete task, from targeting a Hamas operative to securing a perimeter, soldiers could avoid confronting their role in the mass slaughter of civilians." @yuval_abraham @mekomit @972mag https://t.co/BXfNh8HQPH

“I was subjected to horrific torture,” Mahmoud Abu Foul, released from Israeli detention amid the ceasefire, told +972. “They held a wooden tool and constantly struck me from the front and back, sometimes simultaneously, which caused me to lose my sight.” https://t.co/1JiB5nh3X0

“I didn’t turn back to see my family again. I felt too ashamed. I was leaving for peace, and all they had was famine and war. I tried to tell myself that I was leaving so that one day I could bring them out, too. Except I didn’t believe that either.” https://t.co/WoTmjeo59q

By understanding each act of violence as fulfilling a discrete mission, from targeting a Hamas operative to securing a perimeter, many Israeli soldiers have avoided confronting their role in the mass slaughter of civilians. https://t.co/S2VMrHlft6

Important piece on Israel's genocide in Gaza👇

"The mission-driven mentality fragments the destruction of a people and place into thousands of isolated acts, each justified on its own terms, none acknowledged as part of a larger campaign of genocide. It allows some of those carrying it out to ignore the overarching intent, "

One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide by @yuval_abraham. https://t.co/MbEntuEkqM

The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide “Dehumanization runs in two directions: Not only does it inflate the victim into a monstrous threat, it also does the opposite — reducing them to dust, shrinking them until they disappear.”

Yuval Abraham dissects the "logic" - mainly involving the sweeping use of AI & wilfully imprecise notions of "military targeting" - that has allowed Israelis to believe that they're not committing a genocide in #Gaza when that is clearly what they're doing

“What lies at the heart of these justifications is the dehumanization of Palestinians. The soldiers who slaughtered 300 people to kill a single Hamas operative told me they probably would not have done so if one Jewish child had been in the building.” https://t.co/VVw5hrhn6a