At this years Davos meeting of our global non-elites (or would that be “anti-elites”?), the German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, already widely known for her frequent blunders and faux pas, has surpassed herself. Most likely carefully done up by expensive stylists, comfortably seated on a shiny white chair on a state-of-the-art podium in a small town in Switzerland brimming with power, money, and, last but not least, partying, she explained her position regarding the ongoing genocidal Israeli attack on the Palestinians in Gaza.

A “sustainable ceasefire,” she declared, is what is needed. That is, of course, code for “no ceasefire.” Her preference is for the fighting – really, mostly, massacring – to continue, because, as she pronounced, ceasefires do “not fall from the sky.” Many have already commented on just how much obtuse cynicism it takes to reach for a “sky” simile, when telling the world why you think a genocide committed largely by bombing (although there is of course also much starvation, the promotion of diseases, repeated dislocation…) must not stop.

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