Weekly Commentary: B'Tselem Apparently Wants Thousands of Gazans To Die
Invading Israel
Dr. Aaron Lerner 4 April, 2018

B'Tselem apparently wants thousands of Gazans to die invading Israel.

B'Tselem issued a call for IDF soldiers not to open fire against Gazans even
if they are tearing down the fence to invade Israel.

I am not going to speculate at what stage B'Tselem would consider thousands
of Gazans invading Israel to be "life-threatening" and thus justifying
opening fire.

Suffice it to say that under such circumstances we would ultimately reach
the stage that even the folks at B'Tselem would find themselves conceding
that conditions justified opening fire.

But here's the point: the number of casualties that would result from
following B'Tselem's advice is many magnitudes greater than the number of
Gazan casualties that may result from the IDF's current policy.

It is a grotesque morality to advocate a policy that, if implemented,
promises to lead to the deaths of many thousands of Gazans.
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