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    "Jewish ethics clearly distinguishes between the different categories of war. An obligatory war requires a different mode of ethical conduct than all other types of war. Particularly when discussing the obligation in the time of Joshua to conquer the land of Israel for the first time and the generic biblical obligation to destroy Amalek, Jewish law mandates a different set of ethical norms for these historical obligations. Thus Maimonides states:

    It is a positive commandment to vanquish the seven nations [that used to occupy Israel] since it says "you shall vanquish them." Anyone who has one of the members of that nation subservient to him and does not kill him violates the negative commandment, since it says "no life shall survive [from the seven nations]."

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    • do some research into halachic justifications for war... plenty of evidence out there.Amicus
    • yeah, lets base all our rules of war on some shite that was written in the dark ages.toe_knee
    • Just showing the religious justifications that underscore the conflict. btw this is all written long before the dark agesAmicus
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