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Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"maff" |
| Date: |
09 Aug 2006 04:22:54 AM |
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Israeli force can stop the rockets, but for how long? |
Israeli force can stop the rockets, but for how long?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1840130,00.html
The disproportionate response has increased Arab hatred, alienated the
world, and brought criticism from many Jews
David Goldberg
Wednesday August 9, 2006
The Guardian
In one of the tractates of the Talmud - that vast repository of
rabbinic law and lore - there is a discussion about the difference
between killing in self-defence and murder. A man came before the
eminent Babylonian sage Raba and said that he had been ordered by the
governor of his town to kill a third party in order to save his own
life. Was he permitted to do so? No, ruled Raba, the principle that if
someone intends to kill then you kill him first only applies if thereby
the life of the intended victim is spared. Otherwise, "Say not that
your blood is redder than his; perhaps his blood is redder than yours."
Even in extreme circumstances we should comply with certain rules of
moral conduct that enable societies to function and sovereign states to
maintain relations with each other.
War, too, has its own rules of limitation and restraint, enshrined in
just-war theory, the Geneva conventions and international law.
Prominent among them is the doctrine of proportionality: that the
response to aggression should be commensurate with the act.
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