Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the logic of the Gaza genocide

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

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Richard Seymour discusses the abrupt increase in Western criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza, China's energy transition, and how to understand the Trump administration. If you'd like to hear this episode in full please consider becoming a £5/pm PTO supporter on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/poltheoryother

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0:00.0	I think the only long-range strategy they've ever had in this war is genocide.
0:04.0	I mean, it's not a situation where war with military goals degenerates into genocide
0:09.7	as the gap between civilian and military is obliterated.
0:13.2	I think that process began long ago.
0:15.1	We saw it in Lebanon, 2006, and then in Castled and subsequent wars.
0:19.7	Just consider the scale of the damage that has been inflicted.
0:23.5	Israel's dropped over 100,000 tons of explosive on Gaza by April of this year.
0:29.1	So that's 275 tonnes per square kilometre over 18 months.
0:34.3	Now, to give a comparison, the US dropped 5 million tons of explosives on Vietnam, that would be 15
0:40.1	tons per square kilometre over eight years. So the savagery is incomparable. And this is to say nothing
0:47.6	about the targeting of hospitals, water facilities, schools, bakeries, where Hamas's recalcitrant
0:53.6	ongoing existence is the pretext for the
0:56.7	genocidal assault on Palestinian life.
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