" ‘Genocide has two phases,’ Lemkin wrote in Axis Rule in Occupied Europe. The first involves the ‘destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group’ – this was achieved in #Gaza by #Israel’s devastating bombing. The second involves the imposition of a design by the oppressor, like these reconstruction plans for Gaza."

#EyalWeizman: "All They Will Find is Sand"

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n07/eyal-weizman/all-they-will-find-is-sand
#Palestine #oPt #GazaGenocide #colonialViolence