Israel: Take the Gloves Off! | Thane Rosenbaum

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The above talk was posted moments before Israel took things to a different level, attacking Iran. And being counter attacked, missiles dropping in populated areas of Tel Aviv. 

Iran had been in “talks” with the U.S., which had led nowhere according to Trump, and which had passed a sixty-day deadline without committing to stop the nuclear bomb program. Hence the current new Israel-Iran war. 

Meantime, the discussion above, just before the attack on Iran, is abut Hamas and Gaza and what does “proportionality” mean.

Below from the show Notes:

As environmentalist extremist turned pro-Hamas activist Greta Thunberg’s refusal to watch the film of the atrocities committed by the Palestinians on Oct. 7, 2023 indicated, the Jewish state’s foes may not be interested in listening to the truth about the war in Gaza. But according to JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin, it is still imperative for pro-Israel advocates to continue to speak out and highlight the facts of the conflict.

He’s joined in this week’s episode of Think Twice by legal expert Thane Rosenbaum, author of the new book, “Beyond Proportionality: Israel’s Just War in Gaza.” Rosenbaum argues that the attempt to smear Israel as having committed war crimes or a genocide in Gaza is not only an outrageous lie. He sees the attempt to shape the narrative of the war in this manner as “the intersection between antisemitism and international law.”

He maintains that not only is Israel’s war just and that its actions in Gaza are entirely legal under international law, but that the common assertion that too many innocent civilians are being harmed by the conflict is wrong. While the deaths of any individuals in this or any war is a tragedy, the vast majority of Gazans are, Rosenbaum argues, morally complicit for the crimes being committed in their name and with their active cooperation. Hamas may be essentially staging the deaths of civilians because of how they fight the war and their refusal to keep them out of harm’s way. But the population in Gaza has gone along with their being sacrificed in the same way as they did with the barbaric atrocities committed on Oct. 7.

Israel has, Rosenbaum says, a moral obligation to “take the gloves off” and finish the job of eradicating Hamas. A failure to do so, even if it facilitates hostage release/cease fire deals, would simply guarantee more Oct. 7-style tragedies and more bloodshed in the long run.

https://youtu.be/Wqznv65EqtE?si=NkfQRXlDHhaJ5zEG

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For avoidance of any doubt here today: 

I am 100% behind Israel's operation against Iran. One Hundred Percent. 

For reasons that are very simple. If Iran gets the nuclear bomb, it will use it against Israel. It has said it will do so. It has said that repeatedly. And one thing we need to know about these terror regimes: we better listen to what they say. So, if we care about the state of Israel, then we better care that Iran doesn't get the Bomb. End of...