Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

It’s maddening, isn’t it? To watch all these establishment politicians and media figures scatter to their personal accounts and feign moral outrage over Gaza… now, after nearly two years. As if this genocide just sprang out of nowhere. As if it wasn’t always leading here.

And why the sudden shift? I think it’s because they made the grotesque calculation that it’s going to be more difficult to sell and justify images and video of people and children starving to death than it has been to sell and justify images and video of people and children blown apart by bombs and bullets, shot and dropped by the Israeli military using American weapons.

They’ve mastered the language of mass murder (“collateral damage,” “self-defense,” “human shields”) to sanitize the spectacle of slaughter. But........

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