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Author Berkowitz, Peter, 1959-

Title Israel and the struggle over the international laws of war / Peter Berkowitz
Published Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 99 pages)
Series Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 618
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 618.
Contents An opportunity to reorient -- The Goldstone report -- The Gaza flotilla -- Conserving the international laws of war
Summary The author argues that Israel stands on the frontlines of a new struggle over the international laws of war and exposes abuses of law that have been promulgated by international human rights lawyers, UN bodies, and intellectuals to illegitimately circumscribe the right of liberal democracies to defend themselves against transnational terrorists. The Goldstone Report, which was published by the United Nations in September 2009, and the Gaza flotilla controversy, which erupted at the end of May 2010, are examples of those abuses. This book criticizes the flawed assumptions and defective claims a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Arab-Israeli conflict -- Law and legislation
War -- Protection of civilians -- Palestine
LAW -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Middle East.
International law
War -- Protection of civilians
SUBJECT Israel -- International status
Subject Israel
Middle East -- Palestine
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817914363
0817914366
9780817914387
0817914382