Just war and the Gaza Strip

Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Arab ‘terrorists’ belong to the broader category of ‘guerillas,’ almost all of whom include terrorism in their tactics—and such groups are never eradicated by a one-month campaign, especially one waged mainly from the air.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured, and the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) both dismiss U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s strenuous warnings about the need to avoid high Palestinian casualties in the renewed bombing as just so much hot air.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 4, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—“If you (Americans) were okay with us killing 5,000 children, you are okay with killing 10,000 children,” said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo Peace Accords in the 1990s. That’s what Israeli diplomats really think of ...

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