To Strike in the Dark, by Nicholas Mirzoeff
It’s for this conflict that I want to offer a set of strike actions against the colonial counterinsurgency in Gaza. Building off my last post, I call these actions “strikes in the dark” because they are actions outside colonial white reality. Use them if they help. Please make them better, or create better ones
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Your Culture Is A Battleground
This is an extended and non-continuous conflict. In the US and Europe, while the Zionist mainstream are trying to delegitimize all support for Palestine, the far-right have set out to erase all questioning of colonial and racial hierarchy
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Jump cut to 1982, the year of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, in which a variety of new weapons were tried out, including a prototype remotely piloted vehicle, or what has become known as the drone.
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In its scorched-earth defense of the nation-state, the Israel Defense Force has now defined all of Gaza as a kill box. It is divided into two: the north, where everything is a target; and the south, where no-one is safe, but not everything will be shot at.
All of us who watch screens have now been trained to see like drones. Drone footage appears in all TV dramas these days, not to mention advertising, especially for cars. While the film from so-called “smart” bombs caused a sense of cultural rupture in the 1991 Gulf War, today bomb footage is treated as part of “normal” war.
