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Sparta made all of his young males warriors to save its elders, women and children. The men lived a dangerous, unconfortable and highly regimented life so that the rest of society would be protected and free to live according to their customs.
In your average civilized society you sacrifice a few warriors to save the rest, in a totalitarian regime you sacrifice the whole society to save the war. The latter is what Hamas is claiming. The whole palestinian population can die as long as the sacred struggle against evil zionism continues.
If this is courage is a very nihilistic one, sort of those guys who kill their whole family before committing suicide. I think it is just egotism of the worst totalitarian kind.
Just my .02
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