It is as if Israel is playing a dystopian reality television game. Moving Palestinians around like chess pieces. Squid Games for Palestinians. Go here. No, go there. Go to that safe place. No, we changed our mind. Bomb the safe place.
Professor Mark Tomlinson is co-director of the Institute for Life Course Health Research in the Department of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University. These are his personal views.
Perlmutter speaks of children being shredded; of pinpoint shots to the hearts and heads of children, and of a toddler who had been shot in the heart by a sniper – making any argument about an accidental shooting absurd. Early August saw Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich say that “nobody will let us cause two million civilians to die of hunger even though it might beuntil our hostages are returned”. In a normal, even only marginally moral society, Smotrich would be in jail. In Israel, he is the finance minister.
How do we come to understand the callousness and slaughter in Gaza? How do we even begin to understand the minds of people like Netanyahu and Smotrich? The pretty, white, blonde little girl stuck at the bottom of a well will receive endless help from the community and reams of media attention – often global attention. The pretty black girl will also receive help, but substantially less than the white girl. The ladder of diminishing ‘empathy’ follows a neat, linear, racial, cultural and gender path.
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