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“By branding this devastation and mass murder as self-defense’ and required to ‘guarantee Israel’s security,’ a weapon more formidable than bombs, shells, and drones was created: a systemic argumentation of the exceptionalism positioning, framing Israel as an exceptional polity... presenting Israel as victim rather than perpetrator.”

“In many ways the 1982 war influenced Israel and the IDF more than any other. Never before did the IDF operate in such huge formations in civilian areas or bomb and she’ll hundreds of thousands of civilians unperturbed, bringing about the death of many thousands, mainly noncombatants. The level of destruction in urban areas was without precedent.”