The Israeli public has largely turned a blind eye to famine in Gaza but is awakening to a sense of moral complicity. Photograph: Saher Alghorra/The New York Times
“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt,” is a quote widely attributed to Mark Twain. True: denial is the essential and ubiquitous prop of autocratic regimes the world over.
“With the onset of deliberate deadly starvation,” writes dissident Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz, “there was no alternative but to turn to denial, no less loathsome than denial of the Holocaust.”
“This attitude has become part of the mainstream. Descriptions of deliberate starvation in Gaza are an anti-Semitic conspiracy. If there is hunger, talk to Hamas.
“There is something more despicable in this than evading blame: contempt for the vic
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