"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood.

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The students were frightening and frightened at the same time, and their fear made them all the more aggressive."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

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