image on X/Twitter tweeted by the Financial Times on December 6 with this text:
The catastrophic destruction of northern Gaza in less than seven weeks has approached that caused by the years-long carpet-bombing of German cities during the second world war https://ft.com/content/7b407c…
the image above links to the original tweet
anyone can read an archived version of the tweeted article*
from the Financial Times article, published December 5:
“Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne — some of the world’s heaviest-ever bombings are remembered by their place names,” said Robert Pape, a US military historian and author of Bombing to Win, a landmark survey of 20th century bombing campaigns. “Gaza will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns.”
2023-12-07 / notes
*a link; see the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links
commonly confused: ordnance and ordinance (!?) / #copyediting: see later in the article
it’s worth noting here as well that stories we tell ourselves matter, that “all we know is stories – some are helpful, some not” (!gi) / see a very helpful one by Jacob Needleman*
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