Remember to forget October 7 – Mondoweiss

This morning, the Israeli army entered al-Bireh, in the heart of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Not because it needed to, but because it had to. Shots fired. Young men rounded up, herded into the school building called al-Mughtaribin — “the exiles.” How language conspires with history: exile gathers them even in naming. 

The reason the army was there had far less to do with “security” objectives than it did with the date.

October 7. Swollen with the repetition of…