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A few days ago, I watched a “DemocracyNow!” news hour on ‘Olelo TV. It featured two eminent UK intellectuals with intensive years-long “on the ground” experience in the unending horror show that is the West Bank. I marveled — and cringed — at lengthy, live discourses by a caring surgeon and the leading force of a new investigative tool, “forensic architecture.” As I admired their expertise, passion and humanity, an evocative word came to me: barbarians.
Barbarianism is afoot in the holy land and this iteration has a name: militant-political colonial/genocidal Zionism.
Who is the lead barbarian? Take your pick: Israel or the U.S. (or an entanglement of both) — as we shatter and erase Gaza with astonishing high-tech yet primitive voracious violence, cruel disdain, nefarious viciousness and vindictiveness.
The key, as made in a parallel news hour, is: Colonial Zionism must be abolished. There is no other remedy.
Robert H. Stiver
Pearl City
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