With winter here and in desperation to keep warm, people in Gaza are burning rubbish, and one MK thinks it should cost them their lives. Right, so you look at the state of Israeli politics some days and think it can’t possibly get more brazen, and then a lawmaker sits in a Knesset committee and says Palestinians who burn rubbish should be shot or b*mbed and, somehow, the people in the room don’t flinch. They agree. They treat it like a policy point, not a proposal for k*lling civilians over a waste fire. And you realise, again, that the occupation doesn’t bother with pretence anymore. It creates the conditions where waste piles up, where people have no safe way to dispose of it, and then calls the survival behaviour “terrorism.” It’s the whole structure telling on itself in one moment: destroy the infrastructure, criminalise the consequences, and claim it’s security. You know exactly what you’re looking at here don’t you? Israel depravity is being shouted from the rooftops again, I suppose this guy is in the running compete in Eurovision now as well? Right, so you watch what has unfolded in the Knesset this week and what came out of that committee room was not a slip, not an overheated remark, not a one-off eruption of extremism. It functioned as a statement of intent. Zvi Sukkot is the chap in question, one of Itamar Ben-Gvir’s fellow Jewish Power politicians, renowned for holding extremist positions as they are, and he sits in a parliamentary committee, hearing a discussion on waste-burning, and says Palestinians who burn rubbish should be k*lled. Shot. B*mbed. Take your pick. And the people in the room whose job it is to moderate or restrain that kind of talk don’t push back. They nod. They agree. They normalise it. And that is the bigger story of course: not the outburst, we’ve probably become used to the filth that comes out of some Israeli politicians mouths, but the agreement. And if you want to know why that matters, it’s because you can see the entire apparatus of the occupation in a single exchange. You can see how the policy is built. You can see how civilian behaviour becomes securitised. You can see how the far right in Israel is no longer a fringe but the gravitational force pulling the whole coalition into a posture where Palestinians are treated as a problem to be managed, not a population with rights. And the fact it happens in a committee discussing environmental matters doesn’t soften it; it sharpens it. Because it shows how deeply the logic has seeped into governance.