As you indicate, ‘the banality of evil’ is by now an immortal phrase. But what stops me in my tracks, unable to process for a moment what I am reading, is the pettiness of the evil of Israel’s tactics. The pointed cruelty, the vindictiveness, the obscene dancing of the Israeli military, wearing women’s underwear, stuffing their mouths with cream cakes to entertain starving children. Israel has created a nightmare, the one where you’re trapped, paralyzed with dread…I lived through the London blitz as a child, had nightmares for decades afterwards, but nothing my terrifying dreams match the horror of Gaza today.