Hamas, Israel, and the United States

by | May 22, 2021

For obvious reasons, I cannot endorse Hamas’s firing projectiles at residential centers in Israel. But if is wrong to terrorize Israeli noncombatants into changing their government’s outrageous anti-Palestinian policies, then it must also be wrong for Israel and the United States to terrorize noncombatants into changing their rulers’ policies, which those countries routinely do through sanctions and other, explicitly military ways.

One morality–one set of individuals rights–for all!

About Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the executive editor of The Libertarian Institute and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies; former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education; and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest books are Coming to Palestine and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.

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