Hamas does not deserve Israeli 'restraint'
Gerard Baker for The Times
"What exactly is proportionate to genocide?" asks Gerard Baker in The Times. He then wonders "what restraint" someone is "obliged to show towards an enemy" who wants the "elimination of your entire race". Baker insists that "the Jewish state has the right to respond as aggressively as it sees fit".
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