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To: Les H who wrote (45816)	5/9/2025 9:09:47 AM
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'Depopulation,' 'Kill Zone,' and 'Second Nakba': The Lexicon of Brutality Exposes How Israelis Talk About the War Adam Raz and Assaf Bondy, the writers of the new 'Lexicon of Brutality,' explain how language shapes the collective Israeli consciousness about the Palestinians – for the worse By Sheren Hallah Saab, Haaretz, May 8, 2025 According to Raz, a historian and researcher at the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, "Understanding the context allows us to understand why we reached a reality where thousands of Palestinians were willing to perpetrate horrors against Israeli civilians and foreign nationals. This context also works in the other direction: why so many Israelis were willing to legitimize the bombing and starving of the civilian Palestinian population, as well as a policy of untrammeled firepower. "The rationale behind the military's operations in Gaza and the West Bank wasn't born on October 7. You can go back to the starting point: 1948. Israel deported hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, destroyed villages, allowed the public to loot the property of their former neighbors, to dry out orchards and fields, and to use great physical violence." Phrases like "Second Nakba" and "Nakba 2023" in "A Lexicon of Brutality" convey the Palestinians' perception of the war, amid images of mass graves in Gaza, mass killing and bodies strewn in the streets. These terms are also used by Israelis. In November 2023, Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter was asked by Channel 12 whether images of people fleeing northern Gaza could be compared to images of the Nakba. He replied: "We are now in fact unleashing the Gaza Nakba." When asked again whether this was a "Gaza Nakba," he said: "The 2023 Gaza Nakba. This is how this will end." Haaretz