Military law experts from Germany & US say IDF’s worries over automatic int’l condemnations based on double-standards, sets impossible yardstick for democracies fighting future asymmetric wars against terrorists.
By Ari Yashar
The IDF went to extraordinary lengths last summer to prevent civilian casualties while fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza, achieving a remarkable 1:1 civilian to combatant ratio, but according to international legal experts it went too far in avoiding casualties among the enemy population.
IDF (illustration) – Photo: IDF Spokesperson Unit
Willy Stern of Vanderbilt Law School, in an article to be published next Monday in the Weekly Standard, details what he found while spending two weeks with attorneys in the IDF’s international law department dubbed “Dabla” as well as front-line commanders, and documents the IDF’s “legal zeal” which as he notes has not stemmed the deluge of international criticism against it. Continue Reading »
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