An Eye For An Eye Shouldn’t Apply To Babies

At the risk of being labeled an anti-Semite, I don’t think the answer to dead babies is more dead babies. I’ve never understood the idea of fighting fire with fire. And as Gandhi said, an eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

In what set of laws or holy books does one find it said that cutting out the eye of a baby is an adequate response to anything? This is not to justify anything Hamas might have done, it’s just saying that plucking eyeballs out of toddlers is not justice. And please note that I am using the idea of cutting out the eyes of babies as a means of justice as just an example. It applies equally to blowing up babies, starving babies, or burying babies under piles of rubble.

An eye for an eye might seem antiquated and harsh to us of the modern day, but at least there is a ring of justice to it. It just doesn’t hold up at all though when you say “a baby’s eye for a baby’s eye.” Because when it comes to babies, it’s incredibly hard to divide them between us and them, just and unjust, innocent and guilty. A love for and a desire to protect and leave a better world for babies is something that should be able to unite us all. Concern for the well-being of the young and vulnerable should be what unites humanity if anything can. And if even this cannot unite humanity, then God (call him by what name you like) help us all.

Unquestionably, Israel has a right to defend itself. But not from children. No Israelite has ever lost his eye from a Gazan child, the IDF shoots…