Holy shit. The Israeli Finance Minister said that starvation of 2 million Palestinians "may be just and moral" and that doing so would be "wag[ing] war."
Arendt is rolling in her grave. The banality of a comment so glibly justifying genocide and crimes against humanity.
His comments in full: “It is impossible in today’s global reality to wage war – no one in the world would let us starve and thirst two million citizens, even though it may be just and moral until they return our hostages.”
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