All The News Anti-Palestinian Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss

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Closing the Strait, was not an attack on Israel
You can read the abstract, you can log in (or request access) if you want but it is comforting to know that the link did work. And as to your contention that closing the straits was not an attack. well, there is a lot in international law which would disagree with your assessment.
 
You can read the abstract, you can log in (or request access) if you want but it is comforting to know that the link did work. And as to your contention that closing the straits was not an attack. well, there is a lot in international law which would disagree with your assessment.
That means that the blockade of Gaza is an act of war.
 
You can read the abstract, you can log in (or request access) if you want but it is comforting to know that the link did work. And as to your contention that closing the straits was not an attack. well, there is a lot in international law which would disagree with your assessment.
Please quote the specific IHL you are referring to.
 
Please quote the specific IHL you are referring to.
you could read Bergman's book (I provided a link) or just this quick summary
"At the time, members of the international community pledged that Israel would never again be denied use of the Straits of Tiran. The French representative to the UN, for example, announced that an attempt to interfere with free shipping in the Straits would be against international law, and American President Dwight Eisenhower went so far as publicly to recognize that reimposing a blockade in the Straits of Tiran would be seen as an aggressive act which would oblige Israel to protect its maritime rights in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter"
 
you could read Bergman's book (I provided a link) or just this quick summary
"At the time, members of the international community pledged that Israel would never again be denied use of the Straits of Tiran. The French representative to the UN, for example, announced that an attempt to interfere with free shipping in the Straits would be against international law, and American President Dwight Eisenhower went so far as publicly to recognize that reimposing a blockade in the Straits of Tiran would be seen as an aggressive act which would oblige Israel to protect its maritime rights in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter"
Article 51 allows only 2 legal ways to attack another country with military force:
  1. You, yourself are attacked
  2. You receive UNSC authorization
Israel was not attacked with a significant force (like what happened at Pearl Harbor), nor did they seek UNSC authorization. The closing of the Staits is considered a 'frontier incident' and does not qualify as an attack under Article 51.
 
Article 51 allows only 2 legal ways to attack another country with military force:
  1. You, yourself are attacked
  2. You receive UNSC authorization
Israel was not attacked with a significant force (like what happened at Pearl Harbor), nor did they seek UNSC authorization. The closing of the Staits is considered a 'frontier incident' and does not qualify as an attack under Article 51.

Whose land did Israel seize in 1967?
 

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Article 51 allows only 2 legal ways to attack another country with military force:
  1. You, yourself are attacked
  2. You receive UNSC authorization
Israel was not attacked with a significant force (like what happened at Pearl Harbor), nor did they seek UNSC authorization. The closing of the Staits is considered a 'frontier incident' and does not qualify as an attack under Article 51.
Gee, so you are right and DDE was wrong? How amazing that I'm here with someone who knows more than the president of the US about international law. If you really want to understand what Article 51 includes, you need to do some reading.

Start here II H. Rolin, LE Droit MODERNE DE LA GUERRE 805 (1920) for the legal background. Then read U.N. Doc. S/PV.1343, at 36-37 (1967) (if a state of war existed enough to justify closing the straits, then, well a state of war already existed and Israel's actions were within the scope of wartime). Next, consider The Hague Convention and Declarations of 1899 AND 1907, at 122 (J. Scott. ed. 1915) (and the clarifying 2 L. Oppenheim, International Law 556 (H. Lauterpacht ed. 1952). Also if interest might be Gray “International Law and the Use of Force: Foundations of Public International Law”, pp.130-131; and Franck, “Fairness in International Law and Institutions”, pp.101-10
 

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