Middle Eastern Politics: Issues on the Israeli side
I spend a lot of time in this blog talking about Middle Eastern politics, often from the perspective of what terrorist group X is up to this week. A conversation with a friend of mine a few days ago reminded me that I'm really not giving enough attention to the (very severe) problems with Israeli activity as well. What's particularly interesting about these is that they're at least somewhat tractable, and many of these can be solved independently of solving the (much less tractable) problems on the Palestinian side.
( ProblemsCollapse )I'll close this with a reminder from the Mishnah: The sword comes upon the world for the delay of justice, and for the perversion of justice. If we are complicit in allowing a perversion of justice to continue, we will pay for it in war later, and this cost cannot be averted by any claim of necessity, because injustice creates its own costs no matter why it is perpetrated. If there are things which we can fix, it is morally imperative for us to do so, even if the other side does not fix all that they can first, because our own moral conduct is not ever dependent on the moral conduct of others.
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