by Deborah C. Tyler,American Thinker:
Trump’s ‘New Gaza’ plan overlooks a fundamental aspect of human nature.
The slogan no justice, no peace refers to two inherently antagonistic sociopolitical conditions. Peace among nations defined as the absence of war is established and maintained through the use and threat of military force which is a recourse for conflict resolution as old as mankind itself. Modern justice is an advanced achievement of man-made law, recent in world history. Human beings are naturally disposed to fight for life and security, and the prosecution of war in both lower species and human beings is instinctual. However, human beings are not naturally inclined to maintain concepts of justice for all based on humanitarian written law.
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Non-retributive justice is not a product of instinctual consciousness. On the contrary, justice based on modern, humanitarian law arises when reason influenced by ideals of human worth outside one’s own self, kin, and clan conquers the lower instinctual desires for self-preservation, power, and revenge. That is why when war breaks out, even when the combatants are subject to the restraints of humanitarian law, the ideals of justice often are eroded.
The jurisprudence that undergirds life in Western civilization is regarded as secular. This understanding is incomplete, because although it is written by non-religious, democratically elected legislative bodies, its formulation of human worth has derived from the God-centered moral consciousness of Jewish and Christian religions. The ideals of the U.S. Constitution, for example, ratified in 1787, are principally derived from a reformed and individualistic Christianity and still stand as the most successful legal apparatus of preserving justice.
The practical reason why there is no peace in Gaza, and why the Israel Defense Force (IDF) is morally required to continue prosecuting the war there, is that Islamic terrorists do not embrace modern law. The ceasefire declared in October 2025 is ineffective because Islamist terrorists have no cultural preparation and are prevented by their paymasters from participating in humane justice based on law. They are doomed to be the bloodthirsty sadists of Islamism.
Whereas Hamas is represented by other Arab nations in so-called negotiations, the terrorists themselves are not required to respect standards of lawful war, which restrain soldiers from raping women or snapping the heads of babies with their bare hands. Nor do they respect established law, which recognizes such monstrosities as war crimes. They respect no written law that enables them to directly participate in treaties or to honorably surrender, thereby saving the lives of their fellow Gazans. Nor do Gazans themselves have access to justice. They may be summarily executed, forced to remain in combat zones, and denied lawful emigration to save their own lives.
There is a successful precedent for postwar prosecution of war crimes, named after a town in Germany, which may apply to this moment.
To understand how the legal precedents of the Nuremberg trials apply at this time, let’s consider the war crimes committed against just one Israeli woman and include some psychological concepts for her recovery. Romi Gonen was 23 years old, attending the Nova music festival, when she was shot in the right arm. Bleeding from that wound, she was bound, kidnapped, and carried to a crime scene called Shifa Hospital. As she passed in and out of consciousness from pain and exhaustion, she was physically molested and psychologically tortured by, among others, a male “nurse” in the bloody chambers of that brutal place masquerading as a hospital. Following those crimes of torment and violation, she was forced to move across numerous buildings used as homes when they were not serving as torture chambers for a young civilian woman.
Source: SGT Report
