Comments on: Brief thoughts on Gaza http://www.benjaminteicher.com/2009/01/brief-thoughts-on-gaza/ Creative type with a fetish for mildly impossible worlds Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:50:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: dan http://www.benjaminteicher.com/2009/01/brief-thoughts-on-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-19 dan Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:30:47 +0000 http://www.benjaminteicher.com/?p=146#comment-19 interesing article: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1231866575327&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull presumably this would be consider far left in the jpost interesing article:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1231866575327&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

presumably this would be consider far left in the jpost

]]> By: Benjamin http://www.benjaminteicher.com/2009/01/brief-thoughts-on-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Benjamin Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:52:04 +0000 http://www.benjaminteicher.com/?p=146#comment-18 Yes, the war on Gaza is a failure of categories as much as it is a failure of humanity. Yes, the war on Gaza is a failure of categories as much as it is a failure of humanity.

]]> By: dan http://www.benjaminteicher.com/2009/01/brief-thoughts-on-gaza/comment-page-1/#comment-17 dan Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:19:18 +0000 http://www.benjaminteicher.com/?p=146#comment-17 Another disgusting, yet philosophically interesting, aspect of the war is the issue of moral culpability. Israel claims hamas is wholly morally culpable if they fire a mortar, rocket etc from a school, mosque, etc and that subsequent destruction of the structure causes the death of its civillian inhabitants. I believe that the moral philosophical framework would undoubtedly find hamas to have some level of culpability. However, it is an intellectual absurdity for israel to deny its moral culpability. Herein lies the violent heart and the hidden futility of the offensive. A much more watertight assertion would be some realist argument about the ammorality of warfare. At least the settler don't pretend to be empathetic. Another disgusting, yet philosophically interesting, aspect of the war is the issue of moral culpability.

Israel claims hamas is wholly morally culpable if they fire a mortar, rocket etc from a school, mosque, etc and that subsequent destruction of the structure causes the death of its civillian inhabitants.

I believe that the moral philosophical framework would undoubtedly find hamas to have some level of culpability. However, it is an intellectual absurdity for israel to deny its moral culpability. Herein lies the violent heart and the hidden futility of the offensive. A much more watertight assertion would be some realist argument about the ammorality of warfare. At least the settler don’t pretend to be empathetic.

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