This is Mad Men if Don Draper had fucking bottled it on the New York Times anti-tobacco announcement because Sterling Cooper couldn’t survive without American Tobacco. That’s what this is. Nothing but business calculus and sheer moral cowardice. Despicable and gutless.
Is there anyone who buys a single word of this who isn’t a) a religious/racist fanatic, b) a bona-fide product of the Elite Reproduction Factory, or c) fully bought and paid for.
Zero mention of a Palestinian State, whether immediate or even in the future, following a discussion with Mahmoud Abbas (Palestinian Authority). Just pretending they never said anything. Breathtakingly callous and evil.
It’s also colonialism: based on racism and theft. Not new. Same shit, different century. Britain hasn’t changed.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you but I don’t think it’s helpful to flatten and diminish this stuff as same old same old when in the specific context as it affects the Palestinian people it represents yet more debasement and sinking to yet more horrifying depths. This is breathtakingly evil.
I think, as the daughter of a Nakba survivor, I say that because I am gobsmacked by the idea that anyone thinks this just started a few years ago. Like Britain never did evil things or supported evil regimes for profit. You could easily make an argument that that’s all they ever did.
That whole “why do they hate us” rhetoric. To me it speaks to the kind of ignorance that is a gaping chasm in the Western mind.
I feel and I felt. I think for me it’s more a refusal to become inured to it rather than a wilful ignorance but I completely understand your perspective. 💔