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Those of us who’ve long been sympathetic with the Palestinian cause know already what an emotional ordeal it has been to watch the oppression of an entire people at the hands of settler-colonial fascist military regime, but many would not have paid attention until the IDF flattened an entire building which used to house the AP, Al Jazeera, and several other media operations inside the Gaza strip.
The explanation for this is a self-fulfilling prophecy like most of what the IDF tends to indulge in–the theory is that every building struck down is one less vector of influence for Hamas, even when the intelligence suggesting such a thing could be faulty at best, or straight-up fabricated at its very worst. It comes on the heels of several actors within the mainstream media voicing apathy — or even advocating for violence like the NYT’s Bret Stephens recently did — and it begs into question whether the prevailing view on the conflict’s moral complexity warrants upholding still.
From Israel’s perspective — as some analysts have theorized — it is a way to pressure Hamas into submission since those who occupy these buildings have better material standing than the bulk of Gaza’s…
