Missing the Point: Mohammed Kacimi’s “Holy Land” at the Khan
Haim Watzman “On both sides of a war, unity is reflexive, not intentional or premeditated. To disobey is to breach that elemental accord, to claim a moral separateness (or moral superiority), to...
View ArticleWar Ethics In A War Zone
When I told my soldier son last weekend that I was preparing to lead a book club discussion on Michael Walzer‘s book Just and Unjust Wars, he shrugged. “What’s there to talk about?” he asked. “When you...
View ArticleWar Ethics: And When They Do Know the Consequences?
Haim, I agree that soldiers are often cogs in a machine, unable to evaluate the full consequences of their actions. That’s why Israelis are rightly angered by the “Sentry Syndrome” – the all-too-common...
View ArticleWar Ethics In A War Zone (2)
Haim Watzman In response to your last post, Gershom, we don’t disagree about most of the big issues. Of course soldiers, like national leaders and citizens, must make moral judgments, and must make...
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Tough Love: The Moral Choices in the Gaza War
Haim Watzman One series of questions posed to Israeli soldiers in discussions of war ethics goes something like this: If you were ordered to blow up a house where a terrorist commander was hiding, and...
View ArticleRisk and War
Haim Watzman Howard Schweber’s analysis of the Gaza war in light of just war theory (in full at The Huffingon Post and in two parts, here and here on Jewcy) is thought-provoking and worthy of a longer...
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What the Breaking the Silence Report Says about the Gaza War–and Doesn’t
Excerpt from my new op-ed in The Forward Photo by the IDF In its most recent report , Breaking the Silence does something different — it points its spotlight at the haze of a full-scale military...
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