An Unholy Alliance: The Militarization of Humanitarianism in Eyal Weizman’s “The Least of All Possible Evils”

Weizman’s book demonstrates that humanitarian organizations should pro-actively promote peace, rather than working with militaries to advocate for the “lesser evil” of “humanitarian” violence.

by Heather Hartlaub

The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza by Eyal Weizman. New York: Verso Press, 2012.  ISBN: 13579108642.

Would there be fewer war crimes if we left military and humanitarian decisions to computers? Eyal Weizman, Israeli author of Mengele’s Skull and Forensic Architecture, posed this question in his 2…