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The Nature of the Sublime Victory, & How it is Eluding Israel in Gaza, Pt II
The moral assertion that ‘might makes right’ has been an insufficient defence for many modern tyrants accused with actions that most find morally abhorrent. The slaughter in Gaza is following a familiar pattern…
‘Eichmann’s opportunities for feeling like Pontius Pilate were many, and as the months and the years went by, he had lost the need to feel anything at all. This was the way things were, this was the new law of the land, based on the Fuhrer’s order; whatever he did , as far as he could see, as a law abiding citizen. He did his duty, as he told the police and the court over and over again; he not only obeyed orders, he also obeyed the law.’
Hannah Arendt, ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem (1);’ on Eichmann, the ‘law abiding citizen.’
How victory became a synonym for devastation…
I shall continue on where I left off, having ended Part one of this post thus:
…mythological tales of sublime military victories, such as that achieved during the Six Days War, and the raid at Entebbe, emerged from the morass of existential adversity (in the decades following…
