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Just when it seems that The New York Times might finally set aside, at least for the moment, its unrelenting.
Just to pick up on the point of disparity in casualty numbers, and the international outcry by Hamas supporters for proportionality, the
Law of Armed Conflict and the
US Army’s Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Land Warfareboth make clear that “proportionality does not require equivalence.”
When you are trying to win a war against an aggressive enemy aiming to kill those you are charged with protecting, you can (and must) inflict as much pain and damage as possible on that enemy to get them to stop.
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Rembrandt s The Sacrifice of Isaac
The Sacrifice of Isaac (Akeidat Yitzhak in Hebrew), one of the most transcendental moments in the Torah which defined monotheism and abolished child sacrifice in ancient pagan societies is brilliantly depicted by Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) in one of his many Biblical-themed oil paintings circa seventeenth century.