Mr. Sullivan asks the wrong question in his essay. The appropriate question is this: how many children is Hamas willing to kill? If the focus is Palestinian children, the self evident answer is "as many as it takes to achieve our aims". If the focus is Jewish children, their declared answer is "all of them". That is the simple truth behi…
Mr. Sullivan asks the wrong question in his essay. The appropriate question is this: how many children is Hamas willing to kill? If the focus is Palestinian children, the self evident answer is "as many as it takes to achieve our aims". If the focus is Jewish children, their declared answer is "all of them". That is the simple truth behind Hamas' barbarism, and the difference between Israel and Hamas. To hold Israel responsible for the deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza is moral relativism at its worst. Those children have been condemned to death by Hamas, who use them as shields. Their unparalleled brutality against innocent Israelis was a choice. Israel now has no choice but to defend itself. It is doing so after countless warnings to the civilian population that the bombs are coming, a concession that Hamas would never consider. Israel is trying to kill as few Palestinian children as possible. For clear thinking people, there is no question who the barbarians are.
Mr. Sullivan asks the wrong question in his essay. The appropriate question is this: how many children is Hamas willing to kill? If the focus is Palestinian children, the self evident answer is "as many as it takes to achieve our aims". If the focus is Jewish children, their declared answer is "all of them". That is the simple truth behind Hamas' barbarism, and the difference between Israel and Hamas. To hold Israel responsible for the deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza is moral relativism at its worst. Those children have been condemned to death by Hamas, who use them as shields. Their unparalleled brutality against innocent Israelis was a choice. Israel now has no choice but to defend itself. It is doing so after countless warnings to the civilian population that the bombs are coming, a concession that Hamas would never consider. Israel is trying to kill as few Palestinian children as possible. For clear thinking people, there is no question who the barbarians are.