Lex Anteinternet: Some more Hamas Israeli War observations: 1. What is "proportionality" in a war with an opponent that's genocidal? So what, exactly, is proportional to people who will ...
As a followup, it's interesting to note that victorious powers of the Second World War are still, nearly 80 years after it ended, occasionally prosecuting people who were young in the early 1940s who had some role with the death camps. We don't worry about putting these people, now in their high 90s or even over 100, on trial even though it arguably serves no purpose whatsoever now.
Proportional?
Well, perhaps, given the monstrosity of the crime.
Which leads us back to this, what is proportional to an entity that has committed horrors just as equally vile as that which the Nazis did in the 40s, and which would commit more?
Targeting civilians certainly isn't it, but how do you handle an enemy that hides among civilians, and has encouraged them to stay?
And yet again, what do you do if that population actually supports murder to a large degree, and right now, other than the insistence that they do not, there's not very good evidence that they don't. They're still civilians, but how do you address that?
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