If you look at Al-Aqsa and your instinct is to start justifying it, you are the villain in a fucking William S. Gibson novel.

A lot of Americans have immersed themselves in a sort of low-rent version of technostrategic abstraction and scenario-play, and it never really finds a rock bottom. Really horrific to see from people who you have to share a country with.

To a naive observer it should be shocking that liberals are willing to die on the hill of "no, sorry, it would be inconvenient to the imperialist project to regard Palestinians as human," but to be shocked by that you'd have to have not paid attention to the entire history of liberalism