On our site, Sarah Aziza explains how the task of keeping time can feel almost meaningless in the face of such violence—though her Palestinian family still has a tally of days since their last displacement, the hours between bombs. “Genocide, so wild and ruthless it mutilates even the clock,” she writes. Millions of lives have been interrupted or cut cruelly short. This stands in stark contrast to the delusional fables liberal Zionists have long told themselves; as David Klion points out, their belief that Israel could wage a “just, targeted, legitimate war” has proven dangerously wrong.
