@nicholas_saunders@mastodon.social @thetechtutor@me.dm @aral@mastodon.ar.al
I already told you my moral standards don't recognize rule of law so I can't answer in regards to "legally".
Morally I reject states so there is nothing a state could do militarily that I would consider moral.
Obviously this is an unrealistic expectation for an existing state, especially a ethno-nationalist one. But the horrifically high number of civilian casualties and physical destruction in this situation make it obvious that there was a huge spectrum of possibilities. One less bomb could have been dropped. Or no bombs at all.
There are virtually infinite possibilities that could have resulted in fewer casualties and less destruction.
But the state of Israel has deliberately chosen to punish Palestinians collectively. If they are minimizing civilian casualties then I can't even imagine what an "unrestrained" state of Israel would look like!
I can only conclude that as long as they don't use nuclear weapons we're supposed to respect their civility and western liberal values 🤷♂️