Sparks: Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says

When the legions abandon the law they are sworn to uphold, they no longer defend the Republic but become its most terrifying enemy.

Forcing the river only ensures the bank will one day break; true power flows from the empty space that violence cannot fill.

The butcher and the brewer rely on a society's mutual sympathy, yet here the uniformed man serves a concentrated interest that destroys it.

Civilization's final victory is to make its most savage acts look like a regrettable but necessary form of order.

A prince who permits his soldiers to terrorize the conquered loses the province not through weakness but through a fatal error in calculation.

This bureaucratic terror is the sterile opposite of mass action, a calculated cruelty that reveals the state's bankruptcy.

The report's passive voice - 'violence was used' - conceals the active hand, laundering the atrocity through grammatical cowardice.

One does rather question the operational efficiency of a security policy that manufactures its own endless supply of enemies.

Declaring one people the center of a divine cosmology requires infinite worlds of suffering to be rendered invisible.

Calling it 'gendered violence' obscures the deliberate program to deny education and thus humanity itself.

A modest proposal indeed: since the land is wanted, let its people be made so wretched they will gratefully flee it.

List the dates, the regiments, the villages; the pattern of terror emerges not as an aberration but as policy.

Hegemony fails when the consent of the governed is no longer sought, revealing the crude coercion beneath the common sense.

Fear is a weapon that only works if you stand still; the path through it is walked one determined step at a time.