Israel/Palestine

If moral concerns do not exist in the matter, and they do not, there's no point to using moral standards in discussing it, not beyond the fact that war is itself immoral, and remains so even if one agrees with the objective sought by it. Of course, it is a great temptation, if one disapproves the objective seemingly sought by one side or the other, to denounce as immoral any acts by the side you disfavor in furtherance of it, and to view as moral any acts that further an objective sought by a side you favor instead. But it's just wielding a rhetorical cudgel to do so, and nothing to take seriously.



"Terrorism, n.: Violence intended to advance a political cause the utterer of the word disapproves of."