Israel and the struggle over the international laws of war /
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| Author / Creator: | Berkowitz, Peter, 1959- |
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| Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, 2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 99 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 618 Hoover Institution Press publication ; 618. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11180243 |
| 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 arising from both the Goldstone Report and the Gaza flotilla controversy, showing how the legal principles and conclusions advanced by many of Israel's critics threaten not only Israel's national security interests but the United States' as well. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 99 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817914363 0817914366 9780817914387 0817914382 9780817914349 081791434X |