John Spencer
I don't even know where to start with this one. It says a lot. Once again, this is not how war works. Comparing the brutal, intimate, and heinous murders of Israelis—mostly civilians—on October 7th to the number of people killed in the war against Hamas in Gaza betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the laws of armed conflict. The principles of military necessity, proportionality, and distinction are the legal and ethical foundation for assessing conduct in war—not crude body count comparisons. Ratios are not the metric. That’s as uninformed as saying, “Only 2,403 Americans died at Pearl Harbor, but 2.1 million Japanese died in World War II”—as if that alone tells you anything about justice, legality, or morality. BTW, Carthage was not salted—that’s a myth. As someone who’s studied the three Punic Wars: The Romans destroyed the city, enslaved the survivors, and left it in ruins after the Third Punic War (149–146 BCE). But no salt. You can have your own opinions, but not your own facts.