"Beirutification” should become a word if it is not already. By that, I mean the slow normalisation of periodic attacks on a city by a capricious and violent state, until blasts and death become woven into the fabric of urban life. It is urban death by a thousand knives. It is the suffocation of imagination and the thwarting of any civil attempt at a better life, and the gradual dilapidation of a nation to the point where it can no longer stand again"
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‘Don’t die’: the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now
In a park overlooking the city, I ran into a group of young people chatting and joking. As the bombs fall, fragments of life remain, writes an anonymous Tehran residentGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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in reply to JuneSim63 💚 • • •And it goes without saying that Israel's constant undermining of stable institutions and civil life in neighbouring counties is precisely what enables unofficial militias to take the place of normal social organisation.
The 500+ years of British attempts to control Ireland by force of arms is a study every Israeli should undertake. The lesson is simple: it doesn't work. What does work is recognising the founding injustice - the Nakba in the case of the Israeli state - and addressing the resulting inequality and injustice.