You're not gonna die. Because tomorrow you will be alive. And you will make a pledge to get stronger every day. And you will keep that pledge. You will bleed through honor and discipline. And you will become so strong that they may never threaten you. You are going to do this.
While as a scholar of international law I have to conclude on the available evidence that Israel’s conduct in Gaza is, as a legal matter, genocide, as a matter of morality, the perverted gratuitous murder & destruction by the IDF, killing for the hell of it, slaughtering children for a lark, has an extreme moral baseness not fully captured even by the legal language of genocide.
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An example of the small ways we journalists get inside you head to manipulate your emotional reactions to the news.
The Guardian writes today: "Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to retaliate against Iran for a recent ballistic missile strike on Israel."
When we use the verb "vow", we know that you are more likely to feel positively about the person doing the vowing or about the thing they are preparing to do.
If we want you to think more negatively about the person, or what they are doing, we use the word "threatened".
So the sentence above could just as easily – and more accurately – have read:
"Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has threatened to retaliate against Iran for a recent ballistic missile strike on Israel."
Just by changing a single word, Netanyahu now sounds a little more sinister and his actions a little more menacing.
If you keeping attributing subtly positive words to one side (Israel) and subtly negative words to the other side (Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran), you gradually shift the sympathies of the audience.
Do it over an audience's lifetime, and you can very successfully brainwash them without their ever noticing.
Billionaires and state broadcasters pay journalists good salaries to be especially skilful at making these subtle adjustments of language that audiences rarely notice and that bypass their critical faculties.