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Originally Posted by Hugh
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It's a fair article. I think everybody will in agreement that an invasion of Gaza will be bad for everyone - all round, with absolutely no certainty that the IDF will be able meet their two objectives. On that point he is correct, and uses that argument to say the war is not just because for a just war you need to be able see the outcomes.
But he offers no ideas on what Israel should do, instead.
His quote from Aquinas, that he then ignores is also prescient:
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a war can be just if it is the expression of a rightful intention to promote good and forestall evil
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Hamas are the very embodiment of evil.