Jan 17 2009
On Proportionality
Posted by smoothstone
Via NewRepublic:
Before the six months of cease-fire (when the fire never ceased), Hamas had rockets that could only hit nearby small towns in Israel. By the end of the six months, they had far more advanced rockets that can hit cities 30 or 40 kilometers away.
Another six months of the same kind of cease-fire, which is what many nations at the UN demanded, and Hamas would have rockets capable of hitting Tel Aviv. And this is an organization explicitly committed to the destruction of Israel.
How many civilian casualties are “not disproportionate to” the value of avoiding the rocketing of Tel Aviv?
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Hey, who's the guy with the sword?
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