Gaza Peace Plan 1. Kill all military age males…

…when the possible but imperfect outcome is made unattainable, not the perfect but the irrational is the alternative.

When you are faced with an enemy who considers it perfectly licit and permissible to exterminate you, your family and all of your fellow countrymen, then the standard of what is licit and permissible must be grounded in reality and subject to re-evaluation.

Moreover, when one is finally willing, or even simply compelled by events to face that reality, and the distinctions and choices between perfect vs. imperfect alternatives and outcomes mean the difference between survival or death, then the choice to kill those who fully intend and are already attempting to kill you can be said to be many things, e.g. “disproportionate”, “uncivilized” or even “immoral”, but it is not irrational.