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Israel’s Just War?

BY DANIEL JUPP Thinking about what constitutes and doesn’t constitute a just war is in fact a very old process. The Egyptians did it, as did the Ancient Greeks and the Romans. We have surviving Egyptian inscriptions telling us why particular Pharaohs were justified in their conquests, and these told us three things. A Pharaoh was allowed to conquer because he was a legitimate authority, … Continue reading Israel’s Just War?

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Genocide or Just War?

BY JONATHAN LEVITT The word ‘genocide’ is loaded with emotional and political impact and needs to be used very carefully. The dictionary gives: ‘The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.’ Which, of course, does not define ‘large’ and does not determine what is ‘deliberate’ and what is not. I would say … Continue reading Genocide or Just War?

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