Posts Tagged: international law
Why Palestinian Terrorism Is Never Legal or Justified: A Fact-Based Retort
In a world of international anarchy, law-based counter-terrorism is never just about strategy, tactics, or doctrine. Whatever an insurgency’s specific features, this critical arena of...
What the Law Actually Says About Targeting Jihadist Terrorists
During the coming year, the United States, in occasional concert with Israel, must confront expanding terrorist threats. Topping pertinent concerns in Washington and Jerusalem will...
Israel Issues Detailed Response Refuting UN Human Rights Office Accusations of Indiscriminate Bombing
Israel has issued a detailed response refuting a recently published report by the United Nations Human Rights Office accusing the Jewish state of carrying out...
UK Foreign Minister Cleverly Calls for Restraint from Israeli Military
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Saturday he had spoken to the Israeli government about its duty to respect international law and to preserve...
Is International Law Dead?
JNS.org - “Do you think that the time of international law has passed?” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked that of the United Nations Security Council...
The Russia-Ukraine War and Its Legal and Political Implications
JNS.org - The bitter hostilities between Russia and Ukraine are accompanied by widely reported instances of indiscriminate targeting by Russian military forces of civilians and...
UK Labour’s Corbyn Denounces Trump Peace Plan, Backs ‘Right of Return’ That Would Eliminate Israel’s Jewish Majority
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who an overwhelming majority of British Jews consider to be an antisemite, has written a letter to Prime Minister Boris...
Malaysian PM: US Sanctions on Iran Violate International Law
The American sanctions imposed on Iran violate the United Nations charter and international law, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told a conference in Qatar on...
The Legitimacy of Jewish Settlements
“Most of my ethnic group,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently wrote (evading his identity as a Jew), “understands that Trump is bad for...
Editorialized News in The New York Times
“U.S. Sides With Israel on Settling West Bank” declared the front-page New York Times headline on November 19. Clearly the Times, with its century-long opposition...
Rejection of International Law on the Rise, Iran’s FM Says
The rejection of international law is on the rise, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday, during a meeting in Beijing with the...
America, Iran and ‘Anticipatory Self-Defense’
"Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force. In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration.” - President Donald Trump,...
How the World Could See the End of War
"Where will it end? When will it all be lulled back into sleep, and cease, the bloody hatred, the destruction?" -- Aeschylus (Oresteia), presenting the ending of Agamemnon. The...
Amnesty Blasts ‘Staggering’ Iranian Execution Spree; Nearly 700 People Killed So Far This Year
Leading human rights group Amnesty International is concerned over the "staggering" increase of executions in the Islamic Republic of Iran this year, the group said...
