When Our Descendants Look Back on This Chapter

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

It’s almost always simple to look back in history with a clear eye and note misdeeds and murder. Genocides pop out as self-evident, colonialism screams loudly, but for some reason, while in the throes of it all, many individuals, especially those who consider themselves conservative and level-headed, completely miss what is occurring right under their noses.

The abject disconnect between what is going on in Palestine, the clear (and independently verified by the ICJ ) war crimes...