Wow, that article is complete bull. It is a complete manipulation of the various legitimate forms of the just war doctrine because any try just war doctrine also considers the likely repercussions of a just in the consideration of whether it is just. Such repercussions as thinking that you can stop an insurgency movement (which Hamas really still is) by using force and not by taking away its legitimacy and popular support. This attacks on Gaza are unjust because they will be worse for Israel in the long run. Its naive to think otherwise. I’m sorry, but that’s just how the world works. Maybe you people should get out more and talk to some insurgents to figure out what they fight against people like you. If you say they they are __(insert dehumanizing label here)__ and don’t deserve that understanding then I’m sorry, you’ll never win. The blockade (military siege), attacks and invasion are just giving people all over the world over more reason to hate Israel and fight against it. I’m not says there’s no threat from Hamas, I’m just saying there are other ways and that you are making it worse. Read your US Counterinsurgency Field Manual by Petraeus and then read Insurgency and Terrorism by O’Neill so you can stop being so violently ignorant that you end up hurting yourselves. I’m not saying war is never just, only that you obviously don’t know at all what you are talking about. I know you think you know what you’re talking about but like I said, you’ve probably never made friends with an insurgent to understand their motivation. I differ your interpretation of the situation to Stephen Hawkins: “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
