Palestinian Reverend Munther Isaac to U.S. Faith Leaders: If You Are Silent, You Approve of Genocide

[The Magistrate]

15. Look, On The Off Chance You're A Decent Fella I'll Give You This

Stripped of moral and political pretensions, your position amounts to 'That doesn't look like a fair fight to me!'

That's a genuine feeling, and I agree, it's not a fair fight. Wars never are. The whole aim of strategy and tactics is to make the fight as unfair as possible in your own favor.

This fight ought never to have been started, but once fights are started, they go on till one or both of the parties are finished. On a playground, fighters can readily be separated, but with two full-fledged participants in a war, one of them a military power of the first rank, that's just not practical. The thing will go on till the weaker concedes defeat, or the stronger is satisfied it has attained its goals and declares victory. One need not approve of reality to recognize it, and reality doesn't care what view you may take of it.


"If you're in a fair fight, you fucked up."