The enemy operates through friends, servants, and one’s own household

Evidence

Your enemy,” echthros, is everywhere, suggests Plutarch, for “through every friend and servant and acquaintance as well, so far as possible, [he] plays the detective on your actions and digs his way into your plans and searches them through and through.” One can therefore easily find or lose oneself in enemy territory, in the comfort of one’s own home, and have one’s body called upon to deploy sophisticated and remote-uncontrolled defense systems. The enemy may have to be confronted and can even be faced (“the enemy with a thousand faces”) and faced down. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 378

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in surveillance and intimacy; the enemy within the household evokes the theme of the domestic as a site of hidden threat. — connects to: Ordinary people become destructive agents through duty, not hostility — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 606; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”