'Compassion and empathy are not zero-sum commodities,' this Middle East expert says
The scale and brutality of Hamas's grisly attack on Israel last Saturday, in which at least 1,300 Israeli men, women, and children were brutally murdered, has understandably triggered a massive outpouring of sympathy and solidarity with Israel from around the world, particularly in the United States, Europe and other western nations.Meanwhile, Palestinians in Gaza are also dying in disturbingly large numbers.
While this is certainly true in principle, determinations of what is or is not considered 'moral' are usually based less on the actions of the parties than on their identities. Thus, in Biden's words, 'terrorists...purposefully target civilians,' while democracies like the U.S. and Israel 'uphold the laws of war.
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