I've had a lot of thoughts about the events in Israel and Palestine over the last few days, and tried to boil some of them down here: theracket.news/p/the-iron-w...
There has been so much written and said about Hamas’ attack on Israel and the steadily escalating war on Gaza (some good, some really dumb) that it feels almost gratuitous to weigh in on the most re...
It was only a matter of time before ministers in Netanyahu's progressively more-radical governments openly stated some Israeli civilian lives are expendable for the greater good or whatever. In the end, they're just sociopaths who don't actually care about life, Palestinian or Israeli.
thank you for the article. going to re-read it a few more times over the coming days I think
This was a good read, thank you.
this was very good
This is a great read, appreciate the history and the perspective on contemporary events.
And just to put it on the record, I don't find it difficult at all to condemn the occupation and revanchist Zionist ideology as well as the mass murder of civilians. Not sure why anyone else has a hard time with it, but that's the world for you.
Jon, this isn't "kasher and yadlin" It's the literal definition of proportionality in the laws of war
