death dispensed from a height legal language cannot touch: a nice point made by e-flux editorial (we, the hostages of Zion, or, the killers in high places say their prayers out loud)

Wars are never the result of just one man. … Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted on multiple criminal charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. These charges were not handed down by the Palestinians, by Hamas in Gaza, by Hezbollah in Lebanon, or by the Houthis in Yemen. He will not stand trial for corruption by the Islamic Republic of Iran or the United Nations, nor by the International Criminal Court (which has issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity), nor by South Africa (which has formally accused Israel of genocide in the International Court of Justice).

No, he has already been indicted by the police and courts of the State of Israel, a country now hostage not to Hamas, but to their own leader—a man known as “the magician” for his talent for self-preservation. Supported by Empire’s coffers, the magician now holds the entire world captive, unable to stop the butchery of a massive ethno-nationalist war machine. For the magician’s next trick, as the fire spreads into Lebanon and on to Iran, how many more countries and people will become hostages to a spreading war? How many other world powers, with their own grievances and nationalist agendas craving the fullness of expression only possible in war, will gladly aid Israel in sharing its own purifying self-extinction with the world?

— from e-flux #148