Why we say: stop the slaughter
Barry Finger (“Questioning the call for a ceasefire”, Solidarity 689 ) wants us to support Israel in its immediate military conflict with Hamas. But if there is an abstract case for supporting a state in a war against a clerical-fascist militia, the means by which Israel carries out its side of that conflict puts it beyond support. Israel’s military strategy, which aims to reduce Gaza to a “city of rubble”, means it is not merely making war on Hamas, but on the population of Gaza as a whole. How many Palestinian lives are acceptable collateral in the pursuit of the destruction of Hamas? And...