We hold that government should be limited to protecting individual rights--which includes the use of the military against foreign threats.
Israel--as the victim of terrorist aggression--is as justified in killing Palestinian civilians as the US was in killing German and Japanese civilians in WWII.
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood [mailto:dhenwood at panix.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:45 AM To: Media Subject: Re: Israel Should Wage War on the Palestinians
On Jul 18, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Ayn Rand Institute Press Release wrote:
> The inevitable deaths of a few truly innocent Palestinians should not
> stop Israel from doing whatever it takes to eliminate its enemies; any
> deaths of innocents would be the moral responsibility not of Israel
> but of the guilty majority of Palestinians who seek to destroy it.
Man, that's really repulsive. I've always thought that Nazi-Zionist analogies were bullshit, but just how is this different from the logic of the Wehrmacht imposing collective punishment? And it would be nice if you could pause in one of these bloodthirsty missives to explain how you're for limited government except when it comes to the state dealing out mass death to supposed "enemies."
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