There is something remarkably honest about a bulldozer. Unlike a diplomat, it doesn’t lie. It doesn’t issue 'deeply concerned' press releases that no one reads, and it doesn’t pretend that a three-state solution—or any solution—is waiting just around the corner if we all just believe hard enough in the power of empathy. No, a bulldozer simply arrives and reminds everyone that physics trumps international law every single time. In East Jerusalem, the Israeli government has decided that the most effective way to deal with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is not through the tedious channels of discourse, but through the application of heavy machinery to structural foundations.

Watching the headquarters of a multi-decade humanitarian operation get reduced to a pile of rubble and rebar is the perfect metaphor for the 21st century. It is the physical manifestation of our collective realization that the 'Rules-Based International Order' was actually just a polite suggestion written on tissue paper. Israel, in its infinite wisdom and predictably heavy-handed fashion, has determined that UNRWA is effectively a Hamas subsidiary. Whether this is a documented fact or a convenient geopolitical hallucination depends entirely on which side of the lobotomized political spectrum you’ve chosen to occupy this week. If you’re on the Right, you’re likely cheering for the destruction of a 'terrorist nest,' ignoring the fact that removing a social safety net in a war zone is like trying to put out a fire with a canister of pressurized gasoline. If you’re on the Left, you’re currently drafting a tweet that will achieve exactly nothing, clinging to the delusion that the UN—a bloated, bureaucratic ghost of a long-dead era—has the moral authority to do anything other than provide a scenic backdrop for the next atrocity.

Meanwhile, in the West Bank, the festivities continued with Israeli forces launching teargas at a UN vocational school in Qalandia. One can only assume this is part of a new, innovative curriculum designed to prepare Palestinian youth for the reality of their existence: a life lived in a cloud of chemical irritants while the world’s superpowers play a slow-motion game of Risk with their zip codes. It is a masterclass in futility. The vocational school, meant to provide skills for a future that will never arrive, is gassed by a military that believes security can be manufactured through the systematic humiliation of an entire population. It’s a closed loop of stupidity where everyone is a volunteer participant.

Let’s look at the UN for a moment, shall we? This is an organization that exists primarily to hold meetings about the meetings they plan to have. They have 'denied' the charges of collaboration with Hamas with the same frantic, useless energy of a husband caught with his hand in the proverbial cookie jar—or in this case, a tunnels-under-the-office jar. Whether the collaboration was systemic or just the inevitable byproduct of trying to hand out flour in a territory controlled by religious zealots is irrelevant. What matters is that the UN is now so utterly toothless that a sovereign state can simply drive a tractor through their front door and tell them to find a new hobby. The headquarters in East Jerusalem wasn't just a building; it was a monument to the idea that the world cares about refugees. By flattening it, Israel isn't just removing a perceived threat; it’s deleting a reminder that the world failed to solve this problem seventy years ago and has no intention of starting now.

We are witnessing the final death of the 'Neutral Observer.' In the current climate of global brain rot, you are either a loyalist or a target. There is no middle ground, no humanitarian buffer, and certainly no vocational school that is exempt from the whims of a commander with a surplus of teargas. The Israeli government’s ban on UNRWA operating on its territory is a stroke of bureaucratic genius—if your goal is to ensure that the vacuum left behind is filled by even more radicalization. But thinking more than five minutes into the future is a luxury that modern politicians, driven by the need to satisfy their most bloodthirsty constituents, simply cannot afford.

This isn't about security, and it isn't about 'justice.' It is about the sheer, unadulterated pleasure of the spectacle. It is about showing that you can break the toys of the international community and suffer zero consequences because the international community is currently busy arguing about whether or not to send a strongly worded letter that will eventually be used as kindling. We live in an era where the bulldozer is the primary tool of statecraft. It is loud, it is destructive, and it leaves a permanent mark on the landscape, unlike the fleeting, vapid promises of the people who pretend to run this planet. So, let us toast to the rubble. It is the only thing in Jerusalem that isn't lying to us.