Geopolitics

Israel, Hamas, and Techniques of War

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David Pan
If we understand Hamas’s massacre of Israeli civilians as a technique of war, its effectiveness depends on the belief that such terror will encourage others to support Hamas, presumably because such allies agree with Hamas’s actions and are encouraged by its success. The representational war has begun, and a key way to help Israel will be to contribute to marginalizing all who would support or excuse Hamas and its terrorist tactics. In my TelosScope post today, I discuss terror as a technique of war and its relationship to the discourse of human rights. In addition, we are posting the video of the session on “Changing Techniques of War” from the 2023 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute conference on Forms of War.
Now Available!

Telos 203 (Summer 2023): The Manifold Foundations of Human Rights
Telos 203 (Summer 2023): The Manifold Foundations of Human Rights is now available at the Telos Press website.
The struggle for human rights, while beginning as a moral problem about our common responsibilities, can only be taken seriously when we consider its political ramifications. The crucial problem running through the essays in Telos 203 is the difficulty of establishing a unified foundation for human rights given the variety of cultural, legal, moral, and political perspectives that we find in the world regarding the question of how we relate to each other as humans. Three key themes dominate the discussions: the difficulty of balancing the commitment to the universality of human rights with a respect for cultural diversity, the centrality of individual conscience rather than legal determinations in the development of the habits and conventions of human rights, and the inevitably political nature of the human rights project.
Read David Pan’s Introduction to Telos 203 in TELOSscope.
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