- The rhetoric following the pager attacks on Lebanon provides a clear example. In a press briefing in the wake of the attack, U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said, in an apparent endorsement of the operation, that “No country, no organization should be targeting civilians. Terrorist members of a terrorist organization are legitimate targets…” The sentiment was echoed in the pages of the Atlantic. “[The attack] maimed thousands of fighters,” they wrote. It’s an assertion based on no evidence—and in tension with the numerous civilian casualties—save for the fact that the attack was nominally directed against “terrorists.” Former Knesset member Effi Eitam stated it even more clearly (we can always trust Israeli Hebrew language media to lay the genocidal rhetoric bare): “None of these people there are innocent. It’s not some bomb that hits the street (…) it’s accurate, it’s humiliating, discouraging, compensating…”
- To have been harmed by the pager attack means that one is a terrorist, because the pager attack was directed against terrorists. This is the logic of genocide: we have marked all terrorists for death, a status only we can impose or remove, and thus your death will always serve as its own justification.
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