Israel Refuses to Lift Blockade on Gaza

Posted Jun 07, 2010 by Carlos Latuff

Israel Commentary

Carlos Latuff is a Brazilian cartoonist.

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COVID has upended urban life as we once knew it. But it intensified already existing pathologies, those contaminating “normal,” pre-pandemic life. Our present urban reality is one of the de-encounter, a thinning down rather than thickening up, the dispersion and dilution of city life, its fear and loathing.
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