Pope Francis suggested Sunday that Israel’s attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral” and disproportionate, saying its military domination has gone beyond the rules of war.
Francis was asked en route home from Belgium about Israel’s targeted killing of one of Hezbollah’s founding members, Hassan Nasrallah. Friday’s strike in Beirut targeted an area greater than a city block and reduced several residential buildings to rubble, and at least six other deaths have been confirmed.
Francis didn’t mention Israel by name and said he was speaking in general terms. But he said that “the defense must always be proportionate to the attack.”
Right, as if that's a philosophy that we have followed. Ever. A philosophy of warfighting, American style, is "anything worth killing is worth overkilling."
If an enemy hides military assets under/behind civilian infrastructure and people, well, that's just how the cookie crumbles. Hezbollah's HQ was a legitimate military target, as was their now-dead commander, and they hid the HQ under civilian apartment buildings. Israel is in a region of the world that operates under Hama Rules and, when an enemy's clear goal is genocide, the gloves come off.
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