[Gaza] - The Sieging Self Forces the Healer to Work in the Rubble, Proving the Illusion of Civilized Warfare

Event Baseline: Due to Israel's siege on Gaza, dentists are being forced to operate in the streets because of scarce resources and destroyed office space. Dental work has become a luxury for most people.

The body decays. The teeth rot. The healer has no room. The siege is total. The self of the state says: this is necessary. It blocks everything. Food, water, medicine, space. The dentist pulls teeth on the pavement. This is not warfare. It is the complete denial of the other's body. The self believes it can separate the enemy from the civilian. It cannot. All it sees is a category. All it will allow is pain. The dentist in the street is the image of a system that has lost all connection to life. The self prefers the phantom of victory to the reality of a screaming child. The siege is a machine for producing horror. The self thinks it controls the machine. But the machine controls the self.