Selective Blindness, Selective Commotion, Naturalized Narratives

To launch the new year, a text that explains the spirit of the newsletter! Expect a new text every Friday! One in two will be a chapter of the Never Ending Book on the Middle East...

What does it take for someone to see, to perceive, an ongoing genocide?

To the classic question about whether a falling tree makes a sound if there's no one there to witness it, I always responded affirmatively, not without a trace of irritation. The presumption that sound was only produced for human ears bothered me; it was, to me, a manifestation of ou…