The Return of Moral Equivalence

Antony Blinken, as you might have heard, is worried about Israel becoming the same as Hamas.

“Democracies place the highest value on human life, every human life. As it has been said, whoever saves a life, saves the entire world,” he pronounced during a press conference in Brussels late last week. “That’s our strength. It’s what distinguishes us from terrorists like Hamas. If we lose that reverence for human life, we risk becoming indistinguishable from those we confront.”