Browsing: most of the world knows this. But the more power one has — by which I mean military and political — the easier it becomes to stop knowing this. Power

   Peace or war? Murder or compassion? The hell in Israel and Palestine these last few weeks is the planet’s latest focal point of self-annihilation, which always begins with the dehumanization of enemies. And as Fox points out, this can lead to . . . holocaust: “the unthinkable becomes acceptable when we deny people their humanity.”