Letter from Los Angeles
I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…
Author Sam Harris didn’t exactly send this letter, linked below, specifically to me. He sent it to a lot of people, people who were stunned at the Hamas military invasion to kill and kidnap hundreds of Israeli civilians, people stunned at the thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and still being killed, in the Israeli response to destroy Hamas.
Some of these stunned people are — openly, guardedly, perhaps only subconsciously — anti-Palestinian.
Some are — openly, guardedly, perhaps only subconsciously — antisemitic.
Some see no difference between military action that targets civilians, and military action that results in civilian deaths and injuries.
Sam, whose education is in neuroscience and philosophy, appears to see some difference. Maybe you will too, here.
31 October 2023 @ 11:17 am
I disagree. Israel has done everything it could to avoid harm to Palestinians. This is
about eliminating terrorists from the ability to kill innocent Jews once again
like they got away with in 2006.
Robert J. Dunn
31 October 2023 @ 11:29 am
Robert refers to language in the Drunk & Disorderly newsletter which points to this blog post. There I wrote in the introductory link to the article by Sam Harris, “The blood of Israelis is on the Hamas terrorists. Even more blood of Palestinians is on the Israeli government. Can we balance these buckets of blood? An American philosopher writes to say we can’t, and shouldn’t try.”
Robert refers to what I wrote, not to the much more nuanced and insightful piece by Sam.