Michael Walzer: ‘I Don’t Know If There Was Any Alternative’
Michael Walzer at his home. (Jacob Kander for The Free Press)
Peter Savodnik spoke to political theorist Michael Walzer in October about whether Israel was fighting a just war in Gaza. With the fight now entering its seventh month, Peter called for an update.
A week after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, Michael Walzer told The Free Press that Israel’s war against Gaza was just, but he warned against the needless killing of noncombatants. “We do know what ought not to be done, and we just hope it is not done,” he said at the time.
Yesterday, I called Walzer, the author of Just and Unjust Wars, back to see …
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