Hamas Tacitly Admitted Its Casualty Figures Were Fabricated—but That Won’t Change Anyone’s Mind
Stop playing the numbers game.
April 8, 2025
Not an argument for the sake of heaven.
Anti-Zionist Jews today often claim, sometimes sincerely, that they are arguing for the sake of high moral principle, and indeed defending what they insist are Jewish values. Should they thus be considered part of the sort of lively but friendly debate that, we are told, characterizes Jewish tradition? Drawing on a subtler understanding of rabbinic traditions of disputation, Adam Kirsch thinks perhaps not:
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Fighting both to destroy Hamas and to release the hostages.
Not an argument for the sake of heaven.
Real and fake controversy about a powerful prayer.
And what it tells us about the lives of ordinary Jews.