Ricemoon
1w ago
Powerful post by Alon Mizrahi on X
"This is the death of a whole world, not just Gaza. A whole world of hopes and dreams, beliefs and aspirations is perishing before our eyes.
This is the death of a civilization, the collective consciousness of hundreds of millions of souls.
People must have felt like that when the horrors of WWII began unfolding, and it was clear that Europe, the old romantic Europe, an imagined haven of humanity and civility, literature and art, science and reason, was no more (we know what Europe had done on foreign shores, and we can only shake our heads at their naivety, but they honestly believed that they touching on the promise of a better future for humanity).
Everything that we believed in before the genocide is not valid anymore; even people who truly believe in god cannot believe the same and worship the same. Nothing is as it was, and the emotional quality of everything in culture is forever changed.
The perpetrators know they are assassinating a civilization - a fragile balance between life and death, with its colors, rhythms, and textures - and they do it gleefully, with a vengeance, taking special delight in their vindictiveness and getting orgasmic pleasure from the physical and normative destruction they leave in their wake.
It is not just Gaza that is being annihilated. It is an entire civilization and the lives of all of us. Because, whether we recognize it or not, our former life and its meanings died in Rafah, Beit Hanoun, Gaza, and Khan Yunis."
"This is the death of a whole world, not just Gaza. A whole world of hopes and dreams, beliefs and aspirations is perishing before our eyes.
This is the death of a civilization, the collective consciousness of hundreds of millions of souls.
People must have felt like that when the horrors of WWII began unfolding, and it was clear that Europe, the old romantic Europe, an imagined haven of humanity and civility, literature and art, science and reason, was no more (we know what Europe had done on foreign shores, and we can only shake our heads at their naivety, but they honestly believed that they touching on the promise of a better future for humanity).
Everything that we believed in before the genocide is not valid anymore; even people who truly believe in god cannot believe the same and worship the same. Nothing is as it was, and the emotional quality of everything in culture is forever changed.
The perpetrators know they are assassinating a civilization - a fragile balance between life and death, with its colors, rhythms, and textures - and they do it gleefully, with a vengeance, taking special delight in their vindictiveness and getting orgasmic pleasure from the physical and normative destruction they leave in their wake.
It is not just Gaza that is being annihilated. It is an entire civilization and the lives of all of us. Because, whether we recognize it or not, our former life and its meanings died in Rafah, Beit Hanoun, Gaza, and Khan Yunis."
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Ankh_Morpok
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1w ago
Reading it again it is so well said and cuts to the heart of my horror and frankly my depression.
“Everything that we believed in before the genocide is not valid anymore;”. I believed that Israel had suffered terrible injusticehad been nearly annihilated and that they had the right to their land. But when I saw the pure evil they unleashed “and they do it gleefully, with a vengeance,” I had to question everything. This was not normal. The way they targeted journalists, doctors and children… then I learn they are taught from birth that the “other” is trying to kill them; the “other” is less than human, less than them; the “other” has taken their land. They are lied to from birth to become the killing machines they are. They are victims as well as monsters. And now the world sees it. I don’t know what will happen
“Everything that we believed in before the genocide is not valid anymore;”. I believed that Israel had suffered terrible injusticehad been nearly annihilated and that they had the right to their land. But when I saw the pure evil they unleashed “and they do it gleefully, with a vengeance,” I had to question everything. This was not normal. The way they targeted journalists, doctors and children… then I learn they are taught from birth that the “other” is trying to kill them; the “other” is less than human, less than them; the “other” has taken their land. They are lied to from birth to become the killing machines they are. They are victims as well as monsters. And now the world sees it. I don’t know what will happen
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