With winter here and in desperation to keep warm, people in Gaza are burning rubbish, and one MK thinks it should cost them their lives. Right, so you look at the state of Israeli politics some days and think it can’t possibly get more brazen, and then a lawmaker sits in a Knesset committee and says Palestinians who burn rubbish should be shot or b*mbed and, somehow, the people in the room don’t flinch. They agree. They treat it like a policy point, not a proposal for k*lling civilians over a waste fire. And you realise, again, that the occupation doesn’t bother with pretence anymore. It creates the conditions where waste piles up, where people have no safe way to dispose of it, and then calls the survival behaviour “terrorism.” It’s the whole structure telling on itself in one moment: destroy the infrastructure, criminalise the consequences, and ...