Homeless in Gaza

The Kabobfest blog entry entry entitled Homeless in Gaza speaks for itself in describing the heinous atrocity

• that was committed by Israeli Zionist Jews in rampaging through Gaza and
• that was supported by 79% of American Jews.

Jerome Slater's article A Perfect Moral Catastrophe: Just War Philosophy and the Israeli Attack on Gaza supplements the Kabobfest discussion by addressing a subset of Zionist criminality from the standpoint of International Law.

The ridiculous Jewish Zionist "right of defense" argument, which has been parroted by far too many US shabbesgoy politicians, amounts to believing that Jews have the right to plunder, to brutalize and to murder non-Jews with impunity.

Slater disposes of such nonsense in the first two paragraphs.

Even strong critics of the Israeli attack on Gaza have generally prefaced their criticism by saying, in essence, "of course Israel has every right to defend itself against Hamas rocket attacks, but its methods are disproportionate." Or, as it is sometimes put, "no country can ignore attacks on its territory and citizens."

There are two problems with these arguments. The first is that calling Israel's attack on Gaza "disproportionate" falls well short of revealing the full dimensions of its behavior: the Israeli way of war-including in most of its previous wars, not just in Gaza-is worse than merely "disproportional," or even "indiscriminate." Second, a nation does not have a "right" of self-defense if attacks on its soil are triggered by-or are acts of resistance against-its own aggression, colonialism, occupation, or repression.

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