"Small Cogs" and the Machinery of Mass Slaughter Israeli intelligence officers who spoke candidly about their role in remotely targeting Gazan homes, as documented in the film NAZA, present themselves as eerily detached and matter of fact.
Their testimony is a chilling reminder that even those responsible for mass slaughter can appear as "just small cogs" in a much larger machine.
The officers' use of this phrase underscores how complex systems of violence obscure individual culpability.