5LL #388: War, Destruction, Hezbollah, Nakba, Pronatalism
On the Warpath
Ilan Pappé, New Left Review
What is certain is that before this fiasco ends, Israel will inflict a great deal of suffering – on the Iranians, the Lebanese and the Palestinians.
Death and Destruction From the Sky
Khosro Majd, Lina Mounzer and Aslı Bâli, Equator
Waking up to an airstrike is one of the most horrific things you can experience.
Hezbollah’s Gamble
Nasser Elamine, Phenomenal World
The war on Iran spreads to Lebanon.
‘Dirty Work’
Nathan Thrall, The New York Review of Books
The Israeli writer S. Yizhar’s 1949 novella Khirbet Khizeh portrays the violent reality of the Nakba. For decades it was part of the canon of Hebrew literature. That has changed.
Non-natalism
Leslie Root, Spectre
I argue that the left does not need to engage with pronatalism in the sense of developing our own pronatalist positions and projects; that is, we need neither treat low birth rates as a real social problem, nor address genuine working-class concerns about them—because there aren’t any.