Gaza / Israel - The Tribal Self Exhumes Its Own Annihilation, Proving the Permanence of the Wound

Event Baseline: Thousands attended a mass funeral in Gaza for 112 Palestinians killed in a 2023 Israeli airstrike. Their bodies were only recently recovered from under rubble in Gaza City.

The delay in burying these bodies is the physical manifestation of a psychological freeze. The conflict does not allow for closure because the belief in separate tribes demands endless retribution. These corpses, trapped under concrete, are a monument to the absolute failure of the very idea of a 'side'. The living carry the dead with them for years, not as memory, but as a festering, unburied wound. The funeral is not a healing; it is a ritual of collective identification with the victim tribe. Each body becomes a banner for future vengeance. The mechanical loop is clear: my pain is unique because I am a unique self, my enemy caused it, therefore my enemy must suffer equally. This calculus of identity ensures that the rubble of 2023 will be replaced by the rubble of tomorrow. There is no 'right' side, only the shared insanity of two mirrors reflecting hatred. Until the illusion of the separate self is seen through, Gaza will remain a field of delayed funereal processions.