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Ramesh Thakur

Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas

The Western world shirks difficult decisions out of misguided equivocating. Israel can have no such qualms.

Four propositions illustrate two stark truths for Western societies. Without any core ethical principles, we have lost the will and ability to confront tough choices. Second, Westerners with no moral clarity are reaping the whirlwind from the capture of their institutions by the ideology of intolerance and illiberalism.

Israelis take a different view of the Gaza war than many in the West.  Getty Europe

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Ramesh Thakur, a former UN assistant secretary-general, is emeritus professor at the Australian National University.

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