Suffer the Palestinians: The Flaws in Israel’s Zero-Sum Primativism

Suffer the Palestinians: The Flaws in Israel’s Zero-Sum Primativism

Since early 2024, Israel has repeated incessantly the assertion that its military operations in Gaza seek only to crush Hamas for the latter’s cross-border terrorist atrocity of October 7, 2023, and thereby prevent any repetition, and that its military conduct is strictly lawful and mindful of keeping civilian casualties to a minimum. The plight of Israeli hostages taken into Gaza was, and remains, high in the Israeli public’s mind. For the firs…