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Abroad, the killings have tanked the new authorities’ hopes of legitimizing their rule before the international community and of ending sanctions on a country ravaged by nearly 14 years of civil war.

The rest of the culture was already partly there, what with our jokes identifying close co-workers as work spouses and the many TV shows legitimizing the concept of the office family.

The dramatization of migrant roundups incorporating actors and TV characters like Dr. Phil legitimizes the ICE raids and makes for good TV.

In response, Sures wrote that the letter was “rife with falsehoods about Israel and seeks to legitimize and defend the horrific savagery of the Hamas massacre of October 7.”

They seem blind to the destructive forces they legitimize in the process.