"I, for one, am not ready to sacrifice my humanity on the altar of necessity."
That does not sound like something a professional economist should be saying. He should recognize the alternatives available, and then select the least undesirable one to deal with a problem. Which to me is what Israel has done (in light of the thousands of years of Palestine history).
BTW, the atomic bombs saved perhaps millions of Japanese lives that would have been lost in an allied invasion. The people of Okinawa were encouraged to jump off cliffs, to their deaths, in that invasion. I've never heard any realistic option for the allies in 1945 that would have been less deadly than what actually happened.
"I, for one, am not ready to sacrifice my humanity on the altar of necessity."
That does not sound like something a professional economist should be saying. He should recognize the alternatives available, and then select the least undesirable one to deal with a problem. Which to me is what Israel has done (in light of the thousands of years of Palestine history).
BTW, the atomic bombs saved perhaps millions of Japanese lives that would have been lost in an allied invasion. The people of Okinawa were encouraged to jump off cliffs, to their deaths, in that invasion. I've never heard any realistic option for the allies in 1945 that would have been less deadly than what actually happened.