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Israel's Response Is Proportionate to Hamas' Threat
(New York Times) Ami Ayalon - We do not measure ethics and morality by counting dead bodies. The fact that many more Palestinians than Israelis have died does not mean that our cause, or this war, is not just. Many more Germans than Americans died in World War II. Does that mean that Hitler was right and America was wrong? We give advance notifications to areas we are about to attack. Because of our intelligence capabilities, we give specific warnings to every house we intend to strike, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the attacks - allowing the militants to escape. How many other states have done this? The conduct of Hamas is in blatant violation of international law and outside all norms of decency. It forces this war on us and uses its civilians as human shields. The writer is a former director of the Israel Security Agency.