You can read all sorts of articles about the West Bank, but the best way to actually get a feel for what’s going on is from the account and photographs of someone who is there. From Cara Marianna at thefloutist.substack.com:
A Bedouin child of Deir Alla. (With permission.)
11 SEPTEMBER—I recently delivered a talk at the annual Mut zur Ethik conference in Sirnach, Switzerland. Held each summer at the end of August for the past thirty-two years, Mut zur Ethik, which translates as “courage to take a moral stance,” brings together independent journalists, historians, diplomats, activists, scholars, and thinkers to discuss ethical responses to current affairs.
“Reason and Humanity” was the broad topic of this year’s conference. I considered this theme using the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank to illustrate the fundamental irrationality embedded in the Western project—the apotheosis of which is displayed in the sadism and barbarity of the Zionist state.
What follows is a slightly modified version of the original PowerPoint presentation. My full report on the ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin community of Deir Alla is here.
—C. M.
I begin this presentation by showing you pictures of the community of Deir Alla. This was a small Bedouin gathering of seventeen families in the Governorate of Bethlehem. These families are the direct descendants of people who have lived as goatherds and shepherds in the same area for generations. One month ago, in the last week of July, Deir Alla was ethnically cleansed and completely destroyed.
What you are about to see are stark images of humanity and inhumanity, rationality and irrationality. I want you to consider these images in the context of our conference on reason and humanity. This is what the clash between reason and unreason looks like in the West Bank of Occupied Palestine.
Manboons is a vicious animal?
Dirty deeds done to Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk is the default setting?
There is no New Man.