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Infants at al-Shifa Hospital. Photo: Gaza Health Ministry.

Enter the Moral Abyss

The Scourging of Gaza: Diary of a Genocidal War

Jeffrey St. Clair November 18, 2023

If you can be morally desensitized to the point of rationalizing the bombing of hospitals, turning off power in the neonatal ward, shutting off the water supply to dialysis rooms, and snipers spraying bullets in the oncology wing, what atrocities won’t be willing to justify?

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Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with Alexander Cockburn). He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net or on Twitter @JeffreyStClair3. 

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