I write this hesitantly, because it is such a complex subject, but it's not at all an issue of can or should the Jews defend themselves. I think it's a question of how best to defeat evil.

And gunpowder only works so well, the repercussions are almost always undesirable, and yet it seems that when we think of self-defense or defeating evil, our technological paradigm is limited to steel and explosives. If I put it out here as a question, what tools can you think of to best defeat evil, there's going to be some head-scratching if one parameter is that you can't use steel or explosives.

It's a very tough problem. But I think to begin solving it, we have to frame the question properly--even if it makes the question that much harder to answer.