Hans fagområde er etikk i krig.
"Gaza: Is Israel fighting a just war?"
Etter å ha diskutert "krigens rett" og "proporsjonalitet" har han nedenstående avslutning på sin artikkel.
Og den er det verdt å ta inn over seg.
Det dreier seg om det fundamentale, om en krigs nødvendighet:
Avslutning:
"Thus far in this discussion of the Gaza war, I have
not raised the issue of the other constraint on defensive action:
necessity. For defensive killing to be permissible, it must be not only
proportionate but also necessary, in the sense that there is no equally
effective but less harmful way of achieving the defensive aim. In the
present case, the question is whether the killings in Gaza are necessary
to protect Israeli civilians from Hamas. I believe that if they are
necessary at all, that is so only conditionally. The war is necessary
for defence only if Israel continues to quarantine the citizens of Gaza
and to occupy and maintain settlements in the West Bank. If Israel were
to abandon the aim of controlling territories to which it has no right,
and to respect the right of Palestinians to a fully self-determining
life in the lands allotted to them in the UN settlement of 1948, those
who now fire rockets into Israel and conduct raids on Israeli forces
would lose what sway they now have over the Palestinian people. Ordinary
Palestinians want what other people want: to live with dignity, free
from domination and oppression by others, to be secure and self-determining, and thus to have the opportunity to flourish in their own way."
Vurderingen fra 2014 gjelder desto mer i 2023.
Israels krig i Gaza består ikke nødvendighetstesten.
Slik forsterker Israels brudd på Folkeretten ved okkupasjonen av Øst-Jerusalem og Vestbredden at krigføringen i Gaza er ulovlig, ifølge Jeff McMahan.
Skudeneshavn 28. november 2023
Jan Marton Jensen
På Twitter:
1. desember 2023
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1730662655415750982
Kilde:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_McMahan_(philosopher)
5. august 2014
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/46579/gaza-is-israel-fighting-a-just-war
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