The principle of equal justice, which is embodied in the proverbial phrase” An eye for an eye ,” is one of the many themes shared by all three Abrahamic faiths and found in sacred texts from Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
It’s a process that Israel seems to have abandoned because, in its dedication to eradicate all signs of Hamas, no matter the cost to innocent lives, it disregards all names for caution.
The correct view of an entreaty second recorded, practically in stone, in an Germanic constitutional text written between 1792 and 1750 BCE is still up for debate among Rabbinic, Muslim, and Biblical scholars today.
This is the & nbsp, Code of Hammurabi, a Babylonian king whose laws were inscribed in cuneiform on an ancient stone column known as the basalt monument, which is now on display in the Louvre in Paris.
Hammurabi, who was reportedly one of the more extreme and terrible rulers of old Mesopotamia, would have been perplexed by the current unease brought on by a legitimate code that could be characterized as harsh but fair.
No one in his moment was in any doubt about the repercussions of a number of actions that were considered major societal transgressions more than 3,800 years back thanks to the Code of Hammurabi.
” If a child strikes his father, his hands will get severed.” ” If a man removes another man’s eye, his eye shall also be removed.” ” If a man knocks out the smile of his relative, his teeth will also be knocked out.” And so forth.
Suicide is a term that frequently appears in the code and is used to refer to crimes like theft, burglary, murder, and, of course, death, regardless of the cause.
Until one considers the horrifying option, weighing the value of individual lives like berries on a level seems awful to current sensibilities.
The evil of being out of proportion
After the problems of September 11, 2001, in which 2, 977 people were killed, the United States adopted that option in dreadful recent past. 14,490 US military personnel and civilian contractors have died as a result of the post-9 / 11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the Costs of War & nbsp project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
However, even that act of disproportionality pales in comparison to the horrifying price paid in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more than 350, 000 federal soldiers, officers, and civilians lost their lives as a result of the carnage that 19 al-Qaeda assassins committed on September 11, 2001, in New York and Virginia. & nbsp,
Israel has followed the same heinous, despicable way in Gaza, seemingly bent on retaliation rather than justice for the 1,400 people who died in the Hamas attack on October 7.
According to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry, since October 7, more than 8, 000 civilians, mainly women and children, have been killed by Jewish weapons and bullets. Of all, the number is in dispute. The point is still the same whether it’s 8, 000 or 4, 000: the loss of innocent Jewish life is being atoned for by a completely overwhelming and indiscriminate massacre of Palestinians.
The fact that such overwhelming killing is nothing more than routine business for a position that takes pride in being” a light unto the world” should shock the worldwide community. Alternatively, the entire world has participated in and still does in ridiculous Jewish acts committed in the name of self-defense.
Between January 1, 2008, and the end of September of this year, 177 Jewish people were killed and 4,735 were injured by Israeli armed groups and citizens, according to OCHA, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Israeli troops or inhabitants killed 3, 754 Israeli civilians during the same time period, and more than 152, 000 were injured. It is already obvious that the data from the current disaster will only increase this & nbsp imbalance when it is finally compiled and confirmed.
Justice is not served by this & nbsp. This is unchecked, uncontrolled revenge, nbsp.
Some countries have turned a blind eye to Israel’s abuses in its connection with the Palestinians since the creation of Israel in 1948 in the midst of the Second World War, tiptoeing around the rhinoceros that is the Holocaust. Israel’s companions and nbsp have let it down in the process.
The Jews are” the chosen people ,” according to a fundamental tenet of Judaism, and God has given them the responsibility of guiding the planet toward morality. & nbsp,
The first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, frequently spoke and wrote about Israel’s duty to serve as an ethical and moral beacon— the” light unto the nations ,” as it is described in the Book of Isaiah of the Hebrew Bible. & nbsp,
This idea of Israel as the moral compass of the world has been passed down from one head to the next, including Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. Israel’s” lighting is shining across the countries, bringing hope and redemption to the ends of the Earth ,” according to Netanyahu, who made this statement on September 19, 2017, the day before the Israeli New Year.
But no, it would appear, to its Palestinian quick neighbors.
In addition to losing sight of the age-old maxim of” eye for an eye ,” a country that is unable to recognize the horrifying gap in the death tolls in Israel and the Palestinian territories has also given up its claim to be the moral morality’s guiding light.
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American journalist Jonathan Gornall, who once worked for The Times and now resides in the UK, has lived and worked there.