"Dov Wiesglass, the person behind the disengagement, had already provided the way forward in what seemed to be an amusing security cabinet meeting immediately after Hamas had won elections. Israel’s policy, he said, would be “like an appointment with a dietician. he Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won’t die.” These events uncovered a very troubling reality; that the Palestinian cannot be seen to be living without pain, that the spectacle, the “witnessing” efect in the moment of asphyxiating near death is in itself part of the life-source of the regime which demands the Palestinian collapse. As Bhungalia argues, “In Gaza, death is not ‘something to be hidden away’ but something to be strategically exposed. The spectacle of death is a critical reminder of the stakes involved in continued Hamas rule."
Omar Jabary Salamanca: Unplug and Play: Manufacturing Collapse in Gaza, 2011.



















