Soccer Dad: You Mean HAMAS Is Using Disproportionate Force!?

January 4, 2009

You Mean HAMAS Is Using Disproportionate Force!?

Noah Pollak notes:

The "disproportionality" fetishists also never get around to noting that Israel has conducted less than a thousand air strikes in response to over 7,000 Hamas rocket attacks since 2005.

UPDATE: And here is a second example of disproportion, from Michael Totten:

Hamas's war aim is entirely out of proportion to Israel's. Israel wants to halt the incoming rocket fire, while Hamas seeks the destruction or evacuation of Israel.

Read Totten's entire post, which examines the sources on the issue of what "Disproportionate Force" really means.

UPDATE II: Jonah Goldberg takes a broader look at disproportionate response:

Just a random question: how come the people complaining about disproportionate responses never protest when Israel trades a couple hundred Palestianian prisoners for the dead bodies of one or two Israeli soldiers?

by Daled Amos
Posted by daledamos at January 4, 2009 12:04 AM

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