#Steve Coll, "Ceasefire and Impasse," The New Yorker, May 31, 2021. - "In more than a thousand air and missile strikes, Israel said it targeted Hamas commanders and military infrastructure; but although Israeli forces adopted rules of attack designed to protect noncombatants and Palestinian children, casualties mounted." The fighting coincided with shocks inside Israel's recognized borders, where mob violence and attempted lynchings sundered ties between Jewish and Arab citizens and neighbors."
"Netanyahu has been in power continuously since 2009, but his accommodations of far-right political parties and millenarian settler movements, coupled with hi rejection of reconciliation with Palestinians have failed to deliver durable security."
#Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, "Israelis can't go back..." TIME, June 17/June 24, 2021. - Ayelet Gundar-Goshen "can't ignore the fact that that all of the doctors and executives are Jews, while the cleaners and medical workers are mostly Arabs. "For some of the Jewish majority, 'restoring the peace' means that Jews will return to their comfortable lives, while Arabs continue to suffer from poverty and discrimination." .S.
#Salam Khashan, "A doctor's account of life..." TIME, June 17/June 24, 2021. - "It was extremely difficult to get medical aid across the Egyptian border and it still is." "We have international laws against the murder of civilians. The message Palestinians receive from the international community is that Israelis are above these rules."
"On WhatsApp, more than 100 groups formed to organize attacks on Arabs. One message told volunteers to bring 'flags, bats, knives, guns, bras knuckles, wooden boards, pepper spray, anything that would hurt them." "But Arabs point to the reality of their lives in Israel: they are just over 20% of the population and about half of the poorest municipalities."
"Netanyahu's government passed a law in 2018 that removed Arabic as an official language, and gave Jews an 'exclusive right to national self-determination.' "
#Nicholas Lemann, "Cheneyism," The New Yorker, May 24, 2021. - "Hawks are now homeless in both parties, actually, and that poses a challenge to Joe Biden, whose tendencies are non-isolationist, but also un-Chaney-like. Yet the Biden Administration, so ambitious in domestic policy, has been far quieter in foreign policy."
"The Blinken-Kagan article criticized the Obama Administration , in which Blinken served, for 'doing too little' in Syria, and criticized Trump for pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But Biden has not reversed these policies, or dramatically rejected most of Trump's other foreign policy positions... ." "Better to endorse her [Cheney's] stance on Trump, and to find a part for the U.S. to play in the Middle East that involves trying to reduce bloodshed and suffering, not provoking it."
#Jill Lepore, "It's just too much," The New Yorker, May 24, 2021. - "Around the world, three out of five workers say they're burned out. A 2020 U.S, study puts that figure at three in four," "If burnout is... universal and eternal, it's meaningless. If everyone is burned out, and always has been, burnout is just... the hell of life."
"Burnout for [Byung Chul] Han, a writer for 'The Burnout Society,' is depression and exhaustion, the sickness of society that suffers from 'excessive possibility,' an 'achievement society,' a 'yes-we-can' world in which nothing is impossible."
" 'Burnout cuts across executive and managerial levels,' 'Harvard Business Review' reported in 1981." "In 2020 polling, only forty-seven per cent of Americans belonged to an institution of faith."
Burnout may be looked at as a combat metaphor. "In the conditions of late capitalism, from the Reagan era forward, work for many people has come to feel like a battlefield, and daily life, including politics and like online, like yet more slaughter."
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