Hannah Arendt had it right: when empathy dies, barbarity is never far behind
All Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can promise is seven more months of war and the spectre of famine for a people who’ve lost all but their lives. He knows that as long as he’s at war, he can avoid the early elections in which he would be crushed, according to the polls.
HALIFAX—Just days after an Israeli airstrike killed dozens of Palestinian civilians in what they thought was a safe tent-city, former U.S. presidential candidate Nikki Haley said something that put me in mind of the great Jewish writer and philosopher Hannah Arendt.
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