I suggest you search out Peter Beinart -- writer for Jewish Currents, faculty at CUNY Grad School of Journalism, and Dept of Political Science. He was on Brian Lehrer's WNYC show this AM. He is a Jew with a secular view of the current political scene in the State of Israel. He made a thoughtful parallel between the BDS movement of Jews, and the commitment to non-violence in the anti-apartheid struggle of the African National Congress of the 1980s (?).
The Laws of (Civilized, Just) War. What are they? Are they universal? Immutable?
Would publicizing them help the struggle? Broaden out the constituency for a just war solution? Expose the nihilationist rhetoric that often accompanies "anti-terrorism"?
Pres. Biden today picked up the Israeli parallels with the US 9/11 experience. He noted we (the US) made mistakes ( "mistakes"?) in the wake of 9/11. But he didn't spell those mistakes out or probe how they came to be.
David,
A thoughtful article, BUT...
I suggest you search out Peter Beinart -- writer for Jewish Currents, faculty at CUNY Grad School of Journalism, and Dept of Political Science. He was on Brian Lehrer's WNYC show this AM. He is a Jew with a secular view of the current political scene in the State of Israel. He made a thoughtful parallel between the BDS movement of Jews, and the commitment to non-violence in the anti-apartheid struggle of the African National Congress of the 1980s (?).
The Laws of (Civilized, Just) War. What are they? Are they universal? Immutable?
Would publicizing them help the struggle? Broaden out the constituency for a just war solution? Expose the nihilationist rhetoric that often accompanies "anti-terrorism"?
Pres. Biden today picked up the Israeli parallels with the US 9/11 experience. He noted we (the US) made mistakes ( "mistakes"?) in the wake of 9/11. But he didn't spell those mistakes out or probe how they came to be.
Be well,
Frank Kehl