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Deandra Schikora
I have been trying to discern truth concerning the Israel-Gaza conflict. I have examined various perspectives and I have weighed arguments pro-and-con. Below are a few of my thoughts thus far, set out in an objection-reply format. (Many of my thoughts are gotten from others whom I gratefully acknowledge in the text and end notes.)
Below I set out eight popular objections that I have observed in recent discussion about the Israel-Gaza conflict and I offer what I believe are reasonable replies, replies that will provide a cumulative case argument in defence of Israel. (Often I quote at length from writers who have more expertise than I do in the topics at hand.)
In other words, the oppressor-oppressed ideology (a presently popular view that strong nations are ipso facto oppressors and weak nations are ipso facto oppressed) does not adequately capture the goings-on in the Israel-Gaza conflict. The ideologies on the ground need to be taken into account, and given primacy.
Also, it should be noted that Palestinians in Gaza have been given liberation and freedom to rule themselves as a sovereign state, but they have abused their liberation and freedom by engaging in ongoing attacks against Israel. The fact is that Gaza, under the leadership of Hamas, is dedicated to destroying Israel.9
But, I quickly add, if Israel somehow ends up in its just defence doing more evil and/or worse evil than Gaza has done to Israel, then Israel may lose its moral high ground. In its just anger and just defence, Israel should resist committing sin. In other words, Israel needs wisdom to maintain the righteousness of its cause.
(3) Rich Lowry, Israel is not a colonial state, National Review, October 10, 2023. For additional thought from Alan Dowty, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a Visiting Scholar at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, see: Is Israel a settler colonial state? Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Washington, November 10th, 2022.
It should be noted and emphasized that the Arab Higher Committee (founded in 1936) was chaired by a fellow named Amin al-Husseini, a.k.a. the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was also leader of the Palestinian people. Why should this be noted and emphasized? Because the Grand Mufti was pro-Nazi. In fact, he visited with Hitler, became friends with Adolf Eichmann, and attempted to organize a Muslim SS. The Grand Mufti characterized his friendship with Eichmann as their being united in wanting to get rid of the Jews. This sheds important light onto the situation in which the Israeli state was born: Palestinian leaders were as anti-Semitic as Nazis. It seems to me that an argument could be made for thinking that pro-Nazi peoples morally forfeited their right to rule after World War II, or at least should not have a huge say in the United Nations as to whether or not the formation of a Jewish state is legitimate.
(10) Statement from the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces on the recent strike at al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, Government of Canada, Department of National Defence, October 21, 2023.
(13) I am neither a pacifist nor a warmonger. But if we are to engage in war, I favour just war. For my thoughts on just war, see my 2014 blog articles War or Peace? and War and Bible and Just war and justly pro-life.
Hendrik van der Breggen, PhD, is a retired philosophy professor who lives in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. Hendrik is author of the 2023 book APOLOGIA: The Columns: A Defence of Mere Christianity.
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