Is Israel really waging an immoral war against Hamas?
by James M Thunder, Mercator:
Mercator has commendably published six thoughtful articles on the Gaza War since its inception on October 7: Michael Cook’s Stop this madness. Declare a ceasefire (Oct 26); Hendrik van der Breggen’s In defence of Israel (Nov 1); Gabriel Andrade’s Invoking Dresden is not a good way to morally defend the Israeli offensive (Nov 27); Michael Cook’s When will the war in Gaza end? (Jan 23); Paul Malvern’s What Palestinians and Israelis think about the war in Gaza (Feb 5); and Michael Cook’s Is Israel waging a ‘just war’? (Jul 9). In addition, there was the historical perspective provided in Chantel Epie’s The war in Gaza has deep roots (Nov 14).
The number of killed, injured, and displaced people among the two million Gazans has been large and it is growing. I hope my words here will contribute to our conversation on assessing the morality of Israel’s actions.
The social teaching of the Catholic Church appeals to human reasoning not merely to the Bible. The 1983 tome Catechism of the Catholic Church addresses war and peace in these few words (omitting footnotes), only some of which was linked in Mr Cook’s July 9 piece:
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