As a possible Rafah incursion awaits the IDF, the author of a new volume on Jewish just-war theory explains the moral issues at stake.
Images of bloodshed in Gaza should upset anyone with a healthy moral sense. But they don’t help determine whether the actions that brought these scenes about were ethical.
“The Lord is a man of war.”
The hopes of religious pacifists notwithstanding, a credible threat of force is necessary to counter the evil caused by tyrants.