Saturday, April 11, 2009
Walzer wakes up and smells the white phosphorus
In a stunning reversal after years of pro-Israel apologia in the pages of Dissent, the renowned philosopher Michael Walzer, finally declared as unjust the vicious Israeli bombardment of Gaza, in which civilians were essentially confined into an open air prison as Israeli rained death upon them. Walzer famously articulated one of the leading philosophical formulas of just war doctrine. If you followed the link, you will notice it is in Hebrew. Mondoweiss wants to know when he will write it in English.
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It is interesting that he is moving his position in some manner. My question would be, how could you not see the similarity to the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, and that the severity of the treatment of the Palestinians rivals the worse - Auschwitz by any other name
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