Debates and dilemma, due on damage

THE VENUS FLYTRAP

- SHARANYA MANIVANNAN @SHE_OF_THE_SEA

NATIONHOOD, borders, territories: each of these is human-made, and human-maintained.

There are arguments that the nation-state is an inherently violent concept; there are also further arguments that posit that nation-states should not exist at all. But they do, and they have certainly structured our understanding of the world for a significantly long duration, more so in the last century than ever. This is the time and place in history in which, not for the first time, the question of Palestinian statehood has arisen — in this iteration, in relation to two years of sustained genocidal attacks on the region by the Israeli state.