"The impunity of a slave-owner who maltreated his slaves in a slaveholding society was rooted in the social institutions of his world and the basic norms which his society professed to respect. Israeli impunity in the twenty-first century, by contrast, is an anomaly: radically contrary to all the values which we claim to hold and in conflict with the large-scale institutional structures we have created purportedly to enforce them."

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/politics-of-impunity
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