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.
1) I remember when the Mossad was able to get into Argentina, capture Eichmann, and smuggle him out of the country without killing hundreds of civilians in Buenos Aires. Is the Israeli government really so incompetent that it had to kill several hundred civilians in Beirut?
ReplyDelete2) Would it be acceptable to kill hundreds of Jews to put an end to Itamir Ben-Gvir and Kach, given that Kach is a terrorist organization bent on genocide?
3) One of the best-known works in Nazi Germany was "Germany Must Perish!" by Theodore Kaufman, written in 1941 and advocating the genocide of Germans. Nazi propaganda pointed to the book and said, "We're just defending ourselves against Jewish plans for our extermination."
Kaufman may have had the intention to commit genocide, but he did not have the ability. Only one "side" had an army, a navy, an air force, and the ability to fulfill its genocidal desires.
Between Hamas and an Israeli government that includes Ben-Gvir in its cabinet, only one side has an army, a navy, an air force, and nuclear weapons, and that side is where the threat of genocide comes from.
Funny how you ignore what ignited this fracas. Hezbollah could have stayed out of it. They didn’t.
DeleteHezbollah’s leadership aren’t walking down the streets. Unlike Eichmann. They’re not in a villa with minimal fighters around them. Unlike bin Ladin.