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Shlomo Dubnov

Shlomo Dubnov

Shlomo Dubnov is a professor in the Music and Computer Science departments at UC San Diego. He is the chair of the San Diego chapter of SPME (Scholars for Peace in the Middle East).

Austrian-born British economist Friedrich August von Hayek saw law and order not as conservative slogans, but as the pre-requisite of liberty. Without them, capital retreats, entrepreneurship hesitates, and trust erodes.
Hamas must demonstrate sincerity through action; in the inverted narrative, Israel must demonstrate morality through restraint.
In Khan Yunis and elsewhere in Gaza, there is no surgical way to fight an enemy that tunnels beneath your feet and hides behind patients’ walls.
The irony is glaring: If Hamas were to capitulate, release Israeli hostages it intentionally starves, and end its parasitic hoarding and taxation of food aid, most of Gaza’s hunger could be relieved almost overnight.
It is not a synonym for horror, but a distinct legal concept that must remain separate from the politics of outrage.