[Avodah] Fighting for your host country

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:53pm IST, R Michael Makovi wrote:
: If the war is moral, then you are fighting for a moral cause and any
: opposing Jews are irrelevant, and if the war is immoral, then you are
: fighting Judaism itself, and any opposing Jews are irrelevant.

The opposing Jews are irrelevant until you shoot that Elbonian soldier and
you are close enough to hear your victim's dying words "Shema Yisrael!"
I don't think the halachic question can be divorced from this fundamental
emotional truth.

There are many causes that are moral, and even of high enough priotity
to kill for, but don't outrank the unity of Kelal Yisrael.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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