A direct quote from the finance minister of Israel today: “Nobody will let us cause 2 million civilians to die of hunger, even though it might be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.”
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I was hopeful(senile?) that this was satire. I just can’t…
Sounds like their own final solution.
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Collective punishment is forbidden by the Geneva Conventions. Israel has lost its moral compass so completely that it is tragic to witness.
My man Israel never had a moral compass.
Israel has been on dubious moral ground from the beginning. There is, perhaps, a future in which Israel either accepts existence as a pluralistic, multiethnic state, or forces Jewish settlers back into its internationally-recognized borders in order to facilitate the existence of an independent Palestinian state, but those futures seem remote and unlikely – and unless one or the other of them becomes reality, Israel will continue as it began: a settler-colonial state enforcing a regime of apartheid on the native people they have intentionally displaced, disenfranchised, and dispossessed.