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We need to stop talking about “rules of war” or “disproportion.” This isn't about military ethics or balance. It's about a hierarchy of life and death built over centuries of colonialism, imperialism, and militarized whiteness. In that framework, some bodies can be eliminated without trial or consequence, while others are protected, legitimized, and celebrated. The problem isn't that there haven't been symmetrical reprisals. The problem is that any attempt at symmetry is impossible, not because it would be immoral, but because the material, media, and geopolitical means to make it possible are concentrated in the hands of nation-states that decide who has the right to defend themselves. It's a world order where violence is allowed for those who have always wielded it with impunity, and forbidden to those who simply dare to want to live.

THE PEOPLE IN GAZA HAVEN'T JUST ENDURED A WAR. THEY LIVE IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP HELL, A TRUE EXTERMINATION CAMP WHERE EVERY DAY IS A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL, A COLLECTIVE EFFORT TO RESIST SYSTEMATIC ANNIHILATION. AND WHEN, FINALLY, AFTER MONTHS OF HORROR, DEATH CATCHES UP TO THEM, IT DOESN'T COME AS A RELEASE BUT AS YET ANOTHER VIOLENCE THAT SHATTERS EVERYTHING, DESTROYING ANY CHANCE TO SAY GOODBYE OR TO ACCOMPANY THE DEAD. FOR THOSE WHO REMAIN, THE TRAUMA IS IMMEASURABLE. THE LOSS BECOMES COLLECTIVE. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COLLAPSE IS CONSTANT. SURVIVAL HANGS BY A THREAD. IT'S A VIOLENCE THAT GOES BEYOND DEATH, ENGRAVING ITSELF IN THE MEMORY OF THE LIVING AS A GAPING WOUND THAT WILL NEVER HEAL. WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE DEPTH OF THIS SUFFERING AND THE POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT IT MEANS. IT'S A DELIBERATE ACT OF EXTERMINATION, A RACIST AND COLONIAL PROJECT THAT CONTINUES WITHOUT INTERRUPTION.