Episode 81 | (In)vincible Ignorance andJust Getting it Wrong About Hamas (Keith Pavlischek)

Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 8:15 p.m.

b'Marc LiVecche hosts COL Keith Pavlischek, USMC (RET), long-time Providence contributor for a long-form discussion about the Israel-Hamas War. Points of focus include getting the meaning of proportionality right, the criticality of making basic distinctions between good and evil, right and wrong, causal and moral responsibility, and much else.\\n\\nAmong the highlights is their imagined scenario in which they are talking with an honest college student who wants to know how the goal of eliminating Hamas\\u2013and the known if undesired cost in innocent lives that will go along with that\\u2013is compatible with Christian moral commitments guiding the moral prosecution of war.\\n\\nPROGRAM NOTES:\\n\\n* Photo: LiVecche and Pavlischek at the Israeli Knesset, Jerusalem, in 2017 celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Six Day War. With colleagues from the Philos Project, they had a private audience with Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and then Deputy Minister within the Prime Minister\\u2019s office. Check out an LiVecche\\u2019s discussion with him on Israeli history, focusing on the 6 Day War: \\u201cOne-Hundred-Thirty-Two Hours and Fifty Years\\u201c\\n\\nMichael Brendan Dougherty, \\u201cOn Proportionality in War\\u201d National Review, October 10, 2023\\n\\nKeith Pavlischek, \\u201cProportionality in Warfare,\\u201d from The New Atlantis, No. 27 (Spring 2010), pp. 21-34 \\n\\nMarc LiVecche, \\u201cJust War 101,\\u201d from providencemag.com\\n\\nMattias K\\xfcntzel, Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism, and the Roots of 9/11\\n\\nBob Dylan, \\u201cMan of Peace\\u201d and \\u201cNeighborhood Bully\\u201d'