Tag: Hamas’s attacks
The Law of Worst-Case Scenarios
The present Gaza war, initiated by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, poses important questions about both the morality and laws of war and the language of conflict. People everywhere are having heated conversations involving concepts such as targeting civilians, terrorism, proportionality, and genocide. They deploy these concepts when arguing about broad questions, like whether Hamas’s attacks on civilians are justified resistance, and about narrower ones, like whether a specific Israeli bombing of a refugee camp is justified to … Read more
A Collection of Narratives on the Israel-Hamas War
Plus: What did you learn from the 9/11 attacks and America’s responses to it?
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Question of the Week
Many observers are characterizing the recent attack on Israel as that country’s 9/11. On reflection, what