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A Case of Moral Blindness
[Ynet News] Isaac Ben-Israel - During our War of Independence, our enemies sought to exterminate us. We fought for our lives and sustained blows (we lost about 1% of our population), but we also hit our enemies hard and prompted what they refer to as their "Nakba." At the end of the day, the blow they sustained was graver than the one we did, yet in our view it was a just war because our enemies launched it with the intention of exterminating us. The Goldstone Report judges the results, not the intentions. In the view of its drafters, any war, even if it is an act of self-defense and even if it is just, constitutes a crime - because its results are terrible. The report constitutes a case of moral blindness that does not distinguish between aggressors and victims. Knesset Member Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Isaac Ben-Israel was the head of IDF R and D and chairman of the Israel Space Agency.