they're so good at turning your head

with a bit of Thernovich-tier Gorilla Brain Smooth business, wherein the whole last 6 fucking years are reenacted endlessly, trapped in King Pellam's Laund, surveying the wastes with the Fisher King, who turns out to have been hired to teach math under some perplexing circumstances –

And Gaza does not just "go on," Gaza is worse than ever, and they're not only approaching the Final Solution, they're openly arguing about which version would cost less:

Amjad and his family have been "relocated" over and over and over, which is to say they've been told "We're going to kill you if you stay here," and between losing everything so many times over and a recurrence of his little sister's illnesses (how could there not be, what kind of death would stint to love the way we've puzzled out our little kingdoms?), they're trying to raise roughly $2,000 to stay alive.

Rulin & family are in very similar circumstances, either threatened out of their homeless-homes with the announcement that they'll soon be on fire, or sometimes just set on fire without any of the pageantry. I doubt there's any facility in Gaza capable of treating her mother, I don't know if there are even any emergency medics or civil patrol left, but if there's one thing you learn quick from all this, it's that it's expensive to be sick, it's expensive to be starving, it's expensive to be dying, it's expensive to be murdered.

Salaam

M