Glavin: Real-world history also a victim of Israeli-Palestinian violence

For several years now, the journalistic shorthand for the chronic torment that afflicts the Palestinian people and their Israeli neighbours has made use of a figure of speech, “the current round of hostilities,” that shows up in a variety of constructions. Sometimes the round is latest, sometimes it’s last, sometimes it’s recent. It’s a kind of euphemism that accounts for unspeakable, unbearable suffering, and I suppose it fulfils a necessary service, semantics-wise. When I was writing this, typing Israel and “current round of hostilities” into the Google search bar produced “about 14,100 results.” Read More
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