Sane-washing the Israeli officials

At the very least, we discovered that some people, more than others, are deemed to have a greater right to return to their land.

Nasrallah on TV. Src: AP

Last week went by with men in barbershops and coffee shops across the Middle East, and some of us elsewhere, tuned in for Hassan Nasrallah's - head of Hezbollah - speech in the aftermath of Israel’s attack on Lebanon by implanting tiny explosives into devices that operate via radio frequency such as pagers and walkie talkies. Is he going to declare all-out war against Israel? We tried and tried to read between the lines. But there were no lines, no in-betweens. Just Israel's impunity and bearded autocratic men responding to it - one way or the other. This is our new routine.

Another routine is the complete loss of sanity through the process of "sane-washing" insane political moves. As I learned from American writer Rebecca Solnit on Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber’s Media Confidential podcast, this term now refers to news outlets attempting to mold Trump’s incoherent ramblings - Solnit calls them word soups - into something resembling policy or a coherent sta…