The genocide scholar A. Dirk Moses has argued that genocidaires seek to achieve permanent security for their group by preventively eliminating whatever rival group asserts a competing claim to the economic or political resources the first group claims as its own. Bluth's words epitomize this logic.
A. Dirk Moses makes an interesting observation
Increasingly, the Holocaust narrative seems to be giving way to a new understanding of evil for two reasons: because the Holocaust narrative has been conscripted to justify Israel's destruction of Gaza…and because observers [now] understand colonial occupations, rather than the Holocaust, as the prime historical evil.
https://t.co/ggKk2gRANN
Someone should write a book about what happens when a population “only wants security” at any cost no matter what, @dirkmoses! Maybe it could explain a lot of things about genocidal mindsets. Just saying!
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I describe in the introduction to our Germany's History Wars how Staatsräson took a voelkisch (racist) turn after Oct 7th. 👉Here for a free download:
https://t.co/ErtRLEVZsZ
Israel's drive to deal with its enemies 'once and for all' targets not only current foes, but also potential and future threats. The result is incalculable civilian destruction.
My latest for @RStatecraft, as I draw on @dirkmoses important work:
https://t.co/Rq3vgm9Gp2
NEW @MartinDiCaro on @dirkmoses "permanent security": "a policy aspiration with sinister implications: to eliminate any potential or future threats, real or imaginary, internal or external." https://t.co/QqevJjwYR0
As @dirkmoses has shown, the majority of states deliberately narrowed the legal definition of genocide to preserve their ability to use genocidal levels of violence against national groups under a security or military logic. For instance, to crush insurrections by targeting entire populations. The UN Convention of 1948 was thus “depoliticized.”
I’ve been invited by @simonforco to address the Armenian community on this special commemoration event today in Denver. It’s a great honour. l will speak about the significance of the Armenian genocide in history and memory today https://t.co/SuwbuGm5F8
@972mag@MeronRapoport It would be good of you acknowledged where you got the idea of permanent security from. Yigal Levy didn’t introduce it into current discussion and you know it. He says where he gets the idea from in the article you link. https://t.co/Xheqa2aCxI
It is always fun to be on @JIBJABPodcast - this time with the inestimable Monica Hakimi, discussing what follows from the attacks on Iran for international law and what responsibilities legal scholars might have.
Thanks @craigxmartin