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An Exchange on Israel’s Gaza Campaign

By International Association of Penal Law

I wanted to bring to your attention an exchange  between Prof David Luban (Georgetown University Law Center) and myself regarding “Operation Cast Lead” - Israel’s December 2008-January 2009 campaign in the Gaza Strip. ABSTRACT In this exchange published in the American Bar Association’s National Security Law Report, Prof. Luban argues that the Gaza campaign violated both the jus ad bellum and jus in bello proportionality principles and that the Hamas civil administration were not lawful targets under Israel’s own interpretation of the law of armed conflict. Prof. Guiora argues that terrorism changes the landscape of armed conflict and requires a reconfiguration of international law. Under this reconfiguration, an entire terrorist organization may properly be targeted...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).