Tikvah
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October 13, 2023

Neither Might Nor Weakness Makes Right

The bankrupt moral presumption behind so much anti-Israel sentiment.

Behind the ill-informed and sometimes bad-faith accusations of war crimes and atrocities frequently leveled at the Jewish state lies, in many cases, a fundamental assumption about morality: namely, that the weak are always victims and the powerful always oppressors. In this view Israel is Goliath and the Palestinians are David—and, unlike in the book of Samuel, Goliath is wicked because of his size and strength and David righteous not because of his faith but because of his small size and lack of armor. Avi Woolf comments on the bankruptcy of this outlook, revealed by last Saturday’s events:

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