The replies are full of angry denials from Israel supporters who donât realise that the source is a sympathetic story about an Israeli soldier traumatised by âhaving toâ drive over living people with his bulldozer.
Israelâs military strikes on financial institutions in Lebanon violate international humanitarian law, says expert
Andrew âprison guardâ the editor of The Atlantic pops into my mind.
How anyone can consider him a âliberalâ when he volunteered to work in a prison camp for hostages scooped up and sentenced in kangaroo courts in a language they didnât understand, where the evidence is secret (to them) and they have no way of challenging, I have no idea.
I donât know if rape and torture were general in his prison camp but they mostly are.
That would be Jeffrey Goldberg.
Itâs been a hell of a week!
I should have checked prison guardâs name. We only call him that so that anytime the Atlantic comes up in conversation the fact that itâs run by a screw, and one from an utterly grotesque parody of a legal system, is front and centre.
[ETA] I just finished this up⌠at the end they discuss the Oct. 7th attack with Nat Turnerâs rebellion⌠this is probably the most interesting part for me, with regards to better understanding Coatesâ moral center⌠thatâs a hard and difficult place to land⌠but it reminds me of this scene from Come and SeeâŚ
After all he experienced, Flyora canât shoot baby hitler⌠Here is a good explanation as to why, and I think that Coates hits on that in the interview when he talks about the Nat Turner rebellion and Oct. 7thâŚ
This line:
The worst thing that evil people can do is to turn you into one of them.
Primo Levi talks specifically about that⌠how the goal of the nazis was to make the people in the death camps complicit in the genocide of their own peopleâŚ
