When people say Israel’s response to Hamas aggression must be “proportionate”, they don’t mean it. What they actually mean is that Israel shouldn’t respond at all.
Which is fine: everyone’s entitled to their view. But Israel’s critics should at least be honest about what they’re really proposing. And what they’re proposing is that while Israel has a right to defend itself in principle, it shouldn’t do so in practice. It should just turn the other cheek.
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Proportionality
Posted by Henric C. Jensen on July 29, 2014
Posted in Israel-Palestine, Israel/Palestine, Middle East | Tagged: Gaza, Hamas, Israel, world opinion | Leave a Comment »
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