![]() ![]() From one Gaza war to the next, a recurrent charge from the Palestinian side has concerned alleged IDF “disproportionality.” But what does codified and customary international law actually say about such purported violations of the Law of War? What are the pertinent risks and corresponding leadership responsibilities? And what is the “contextual” relevance of our world’s continuously decentralized or “Westphalian” system of international law?Ī reciprocal question must also be raised. Whenever Israel finds itself in the midst of major conflict with Hamas, each side seeks to defend itself in military and legal terms. Guillaume Apollinaire, The New Spirit and the Poets (1917) “It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.” ![]() Louis Rene Beres, professor emeritus of international law at Purdue and Chair of Project Daniel for PM Ariel Sharon, comments on the provisions of international law in matters of violations of the Law of War, vis-à-vis the longstanding Israel-Palestine conflict.
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