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Israel’s Right to Self-Defense: International Law and Gaza

November 1, 2012

This volume provides a review of Israel’s unprecedented and careful consideration of questions of international law when forced to go to war to defend its civilian population from attack, with a particular focus on the Gaza war of 2008-2009. It concludes that existing international law permits a nation to act in self-defense, and that Israel […]

Hague court rejects Palestinian suit against Israel over Cast Lead

April 4, 2012 | Amb. Dore Gold

In a major, and rare, victory for Israel, the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled on Monday that it could not judge cases involving the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The ruling was a blow to the Palestinian Authority, which had submitted a lawsuit against Israeli officials in 2009 over what it alleged were "war crimes" the Israel Defense Forces committed during its incursion into Gaza in Operation Cast Lead in 2008-9 against Hamas' terror.

International Law’s Limitations on Contending with Terror

June 18, 2009 | Dr. Roy Schondorf

Introduction: The Dangerous Bias of the United Nations Goldstone Report

June 18, 2009 | Amb. Dore Gold

International Law and Military Operations in Practice – I

June 18, 2009 | Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror

Opening Remarks

June 18, 2009 | Dr. Lars Hansel

Conference: Hamas the Gaza War and Accountability under International Law

June 18, 2009

“Lawfare”

June 18, 2009 | Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg

Self-Defense and the Dignity of States

June 18, 2009 | Prof. George Fletcher

Asymmetric Conflicts and the Rules of War

June 18, 2009 | Col. (ret.) Pnina Sharvit-Baruch

Redifining the Law of Armed Conflict? Legal Manipulations regarding Israel’s Struggle Against Terrorism

June 18, 2008

In Praise of Federacy

December 25, 1977