The Israeli government’s actions in Gaza “can no longer be justified,” said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday, signalling a profound shift in tone from one of Europe’s traditionally most staunch supporters of Israel.
The Israeli government’s actions in Gaza “can no longer be justified,” said German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday, signalling a profound shift in tone from one of Europe’s traditionally most staunch supporters of Israel.
Some kind of military response in Gaza was justified by October 7. Not the wholesale slaughter of civilians we have seen. But something beyond stern words of disapproval.
Why? Have military responses been shown to improve the situation in the past few decades? Isn’t October 7 the direct result of decades of military responses by both sides? Wouldn’t it make more sense to suppress that instinctive desire for revenge and say “enough is enough, this approach is clearly not working”? Especially if you are the only side in the conflict that has a chance to keep everyone on your side from acting independently since guerrilla cells don’t exactly lend themselves to centralized control.
Umm, maybe because they killed, raped, and kidnapped
hundredsthousands of innocent Israeli citizens. Hamas deserves to be and must be wiped out. But innocent Palestinians don’t deserve to suffer.Why would colonial violence ever be justified?