A good pretext for war is not enough to make a war just, @PhilKlay writes: theatlantic.com/international/…
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay A good pretext for war is not enough to make a war just?" Hamas killing 1200 people, raping and killing women, and taking over 200 people hostage including elderly women and children is a "good pretext for war?
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay "It should not bomb entire neighborhoods to rubble" The Nazis bombed entire cities to rubble such as razing Warsaw to the ground after the Warsaw Uprising. The Russians and the Allies bombed Berlin to rubble.
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay How could anything make genocide defensible? #GazaGenocide
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay No mention of the Israelis killed by Palestinians in terrorist attacks in 2023 including two brothers who were run over at a bus stop, a woman and her adult daughters killed by being shot in the face at close range, the two Israelis killed while waiting at a car wash?
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay After reading the 1st paragraph I realized the author has a heavy bias and knows nothing about history- Hamas' attacks on Israel were more like Pearl Harbor. You can make an argument that the US bombing Japan in WWII was not just but calling the US entering WWII "indefensible"?
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay " Israel should not approve strikes that will predictably kill more than 100 civilians for limited military gain" Imagine telling the Allies that when they attacked Japan and Germany.
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay Gone beyond indefensible. It undermines the principles that Western democracies claim to stand for. yahoo.com/news/gaza-star…
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay Too many Israelis believe the idea of "rebuilding a Gazan government led by Palestinians not committed to Israel’s destruction" is a fantasy.
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay This is opinion, not fact. History - what incident brought the US into WW II? It was not the concentration camps and mass killings of Jews. It was not the bombing of EU & Russia. Pearl Harbor. DO the math on cost of 1500 terrorists, 1Ks Tunnels, Rockets into Israel daily...
@TheAtlantic @PhilKlay I agree. The war Hamas is waging on Israel is unjust.