A few days ago, a British-born woman asked me why Israel had to kill all those Palestinians. It should “focus on destroying Hamas only,” she said. I thought she was so naive. A decent and rare piece on the Guardian although the writer has illusions in ‘the international community” and ‘international law’. What would have been the reaction if those children were pets? What will they think of those who let it happen? Palestinian children injured in an Israeli air strike await treatment at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, on 17 October 2023 (Photo credit: AFP)
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51