Analogy and Tragedy in Israel’s War on Gaza
At the outset of Israel’s war on Gaza, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as if lured by what the French poet Stephen Mallarmé termed “the demon of analogy,” likened Hamas to ISIS, a comparison that was subsequently echoed by the American President Joe Biden. And for good measure, Netanyahu also identified Hamas with Nazi […]
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At the outset of Israel’s war on Gaza, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as if lured by what the French poet Stephen Mallarmé termed “the demon of analogy,” likened Hamas to ISIS, a comparison that was subsequently echoed by the American President Joe Biden. And for good measure, Netanyahu also identified Hamas with Nazi
