Israel and the Struggle over the International Laws of War

by Peter Berkowitz

Overview

The author argues that Israel stands on the frontlines of a new struggle over the international laws of war and exposes abuses of law that have been promulgated by international human rights lawyers, UN bodies, and intellectuals to illegitimately circumscribe the right of liberal democracies to defend themselves against transnational terrorists. The Goldstone Report, which was published by the United Nations in September 2009, and the Gaza flotilla controversy, which erupted at the end of May 2010, are examples of those abuses. This book criticizes the flawed assumptions and defective claims arising from both the Goldstone Report and the Gaza flotilla controversy, showing how the legal principles and conclusions advanced by many of Israel's critics threaten not only Israel's national security interests but the United States' as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780817914349
Publisher:	Hoover Institution Press
Publication date:	04/01/2012
Series:	Hoover Institution Press Publication (Hardcover)
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he chairs the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law. He was cofounder and director of the Israel Program on Constitutional Government, has served as a senior consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics, and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Chapter 1 An Opportunity to Reorient 1

Chapter 2 The Goldstone Report 9

Chapter 3 The Gaza Flotilla 51

Chapter 4 Conserving the International Laws of War 83

About the Author 89

About the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law 91

Index 93