I have some questions for those urging Israel to exercise restraint as it responds to the worst single-episode massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, to those insisting its reprisals be no more than is “proportionate”. What exactly is proportionate to genocide? What restraint is someone obliged to show towards an enemy who has as his stated objective the elimination of your entire race?
Hamas is institutionally committed to the eradication of every last Jew from the Earth. Last weekend it made a significant down payment on that commitment by machinegunning young partygoers at a peace concert in the desert; slitting the throats of family members waking up on a Sabbath morning; murdering dozens of babies in a kibbutz; seizing and gleefully parading Holocaust-survivor grandmothers for
