<nettime> on Palestine

["Michael Benson" <michael.benson {AT} pristop.si>]

And then everybody's thoughts turned to revenge. They had plenty of 
precedent: the entire history of the race, not just their race but the 
human race, exposed in memory like a photographic print gathering 
darkness the further back into time it reaches, a temporal negative. 
They watched the images of tanks creaking ominously as they were backed 
down ramps from the massive carriers in the desert, and pledged revenge. 
(They also considered the fuming, immediate, intensely terrifying things 
in themselves. Not the shots. _We_ watched the shots, on television.) 
And saw the shells crashing into civilian settlements, and pledged 
revenge. And surveyed the exploded glass scattered across the 
cobblestones, the carnage, the terminally crashed hopes, and considered 
the possibilities. And plotted and planned and surveyed and schemed and 
did all those things that twine like thorns, or the DNA spiral itself, 
through our collective memories and dreams and, not least, throughout 
recorded (that is, recoded) history. And it wasn't good. It was a bloody 
mess.

[also to Spectre]

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