T
he loudest voices are the ones that hold the most power. So, we must distinguish between the voices of those who scream and bleed the most, and those who bomb the most. The sounds of those who bomb are more audible, particularly because our analyses often repeat the narratives of those in power. The more we bleed, the less we are heard. Sound does not emanate from the ruins, but from those who create and trample them in order to seize them. Ultimately, it is the occupation of space that constitutes power, more than the occupation of souls that will eventually inhabit it – either to oppose or to ally with it.
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US and Israel increasingly target Iran's civilian infrastructure
The friends I meet express their profound sadness, their solidarity with me. But very quickly, joy emerges: the joy sparked by the disappearance of [the Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei. "One good thing done!" they say. I feel like replying that with this "good thing done," no one quite knows what to do about the deaths of hundreds of students, thousands wounded in their hospital beds and thousands killed – mostly civilians – at their workplaces or in their homes.
