Refaat Alareer, the teacher and writer who had shared the hardships of war with EL PAÍS, was killed along with six family members in an Israeli attack
Refaat Alareer, the teacher and writer who had shared the hardships of war with EL PAÍS, was killed along with six family members in an Israeli attack
It’s pretty hypocritical to start a war and then, when the people you started the war with come for you, to claim that they’re being too aggressive. It’s not a morally coherent position. When you start a war, you know for a fact that there will be a counterattack and there is no universe in which said counter isn’t going to involve lots of civilian casualties. Hamas knew this but did it anyway, so who’s really to blame? Do we really expect the Israelis to just back off and not respond? Why don’t we treat any other countries that way? Why the double standard? What’s really going on here?