Israel’s war in Gaza is chipping away at so much of what we – in the United States but also internationally – had agreed upon as acceptable, from the rules governing our freedom of speech to the very laws of armed conflict. It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other.
In repression of counter speech against genocide in almost all western countries to some degree their hand has been shown once again to be prioritizing order over law’s rotting corpse.
Not order. It’s control and oppression, a tale as old as mankind.