Camillo 'Mac' Bica, Ph.D., is an author, activist, and Professor of Philosophy at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His focus is in Social and Political Philosophy and Ethics particularly as it applies to war.
However valid the claims of oppression, apartheid, etc., against the Palestinian people may be, Hamas ’ October 7 attack, in which 1,163 Israel i civilians were killed and 252 taken hostage, some of whom, it is alleged, may have been sexually assaulted, does constitute a war crime. As such, the Jus Ad Bellum criteria—international and moral laws governing when states may resort to armed conflict in national defense—have been satisfied.
That being said, the crimes of October 7 do not provide Israel with blanket justification for its use of any and every means at its disposal even as a response to what it may interpret as an existential threat. There is a profound moral and legal distinction between national defense and national preservation. Nor do International Humanitarian Law , Laws of Armed Conflict, and the International Law of Human Rights sanction acts of revenge or reprisals against civilians and civilian objects.
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