The announcement that ten British citizens who served in the Israeli army may soon face war crimes investigations in the U.K. is both troubling and unsurprising. Troubling because it risks reinforcing the growing international perception of Israel as a pariah state; unsurprising because, after months of war in Gaza, such a legal reckoning felt inevitable. The case demonstrates a dire tension between the moral clarity that liberal democracies claim to uphold, and the complexity of combat against Hamas.
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