Tag Archives: Armed conflict & occupation

Before the next war: Israel and the US should articulate a policy on proportionality

BlogsBy Eric Mandel March 31, 2021

Proportionality… It is not the number of causalities that determines proportionality but the necessity of the military action balanced against the potential civilian loss.

International Law for Just One Nation

CommentariesBy Eugene Kontorovich October 3, 2020

Two books examine the details behind arguments about the legality of settlements – a review by Prof. Eugene Kontorovich.

The Palestinian ‘Refugee’ Problem and the Missing Peace

ArticlesBy Joseph Spoerl October 3, 2020 Leave a comment

Prof. Joseph Spoerl compares the different approaches taken by Palestinians and Germans to the dislocations that avoidable wars of their own causing inflicted on these two peoples in the 1940s.