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The prospect of a U.S.-Israel mutual defense treaty looms yet again. Looking at the specifics of other U.S. mutual defense treaties can offer lessons for Israelis curious about the potential benefits and drawbacks of a treaty with the United States.
By early June of this year, incendiary balloon attacks from Gaza had destroyed approximately 4,300 acres of land in Israel, and more has been destroyed since then. Yet news reports on the incendiary balloons often fail to identify these attacks as war crimes.
A controversial decision delivered by the Israeli Supreme Court on May 2 could be an important test case for its ability to withstand political attacks.
Israel routinely limits the space available for fishing next to the Gaza Strip in response to attacks by Hamas. Whether or not this is legal turns on whether Israel is still occupying Gaza under international law.
The first glimpse of the administration's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan could be a starting point for a more serious discussion.
The group’s new report accuses both Hamas and the Israeli government of committing war crimes regarding an incident in May 2019. But its focus on attack effects as the principal indicator of illegality reinforces a troubling distortion of the law.
To assume that the promise of economic improvement would outweigh ordinary human aspirations of a people who have painfully struggled for decades is to miss the nature of the human condition.
After the Israel Defense Forces announced it launched an airstrike on a Hamas facility used for cyber operations, some observers warned that a dangerous line had been crossed and others questioned the legality of the strike itself. Both are wrong.
In the aftermath of Israel’s recent election, de jure annexation of the West Bank is increasingly likely. But such a plan raises issues under international law and risks calling into question Israel’s status as a democracy.
It's up to the United States to prevent what increasingly seems like an inevitable outcome.