"The mass murder in Gaza outlines a pattern, a set of tools and measures of extermination, subjugation, and expulsion".
"What is it about genocide that Global-North governments find so valuable and attractive that they protect its screamingly criminal substance and application, even at the cost of completely ruining their standing with everyone else on the planet?"
It sets a precedent "to subdue the cities of the Global South (and the poor in general").
"Why?
"The general reason is obvious, and while there would be much to say about it, let’s just summarize it here: The West is in decline in a severely crisis-ridden world (it has produced most or even all of these crises, but let’s pass over that irony for now). Its “elites” have decided not to adjust constructively – which would be entirely possible by compromise, cooperation, and sharing – but instead […] they will fight for what they hubristically see as their “garden”."
Tarik Cyril Amar (2024) https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/the-gaza-method
"When an abject lack of compassion has the redeeming feature of being accompanied by a blunt lack of sophistication": https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/germanys-annalena-baerbock-the-debility-0b5 