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An Israeli flag flutters above the wreckage of a tank on a hill in the Golan Heights overlooking the border with Syria on October 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)
March 28, 2019, 3:01 pm
Did Netanyahu just endorse the acquisition of territory by force?
As PM asserts Israel can keep land captured in defensive wars, one Israeli legal scholar insists Golan still belongs to Syria, but argues that the West Bank’s status is debatable
By Raphael Ahren
View of the Amona outpost in the West Bank, on November 28, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 6, 2016, 1:39 am
What’s in the Israeli legislation that aims to legalize West Bank outposts?
Does the Regulation Bill presage Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank? Will the Supreme Court strike it down? How will the world react?
By Raphael Ahren
The Human Rights Council in Geneva (UN/Jean-Marc Ferré)
June 23, 2015, 12:03 pm
UN’s Gaza report will make the rounds, but won’t put Israelis in the dock
Palestinians will exploit document to the fullest, but since it lacks specific evidence, it won’t provide ammunition against IDF at International Criminal Court
By Raphael Ahren
The UN Security Council voting on a resolution on Palestinian statehood on December 30, 2014. The resolution was voted down. (UN/Evan Schneider)
March 25, 2015, 12:52 pm
Without US cover at UN, Israel could face diplomatic avalanche
Already violating countless resolutions, Jerusalem has little to fear immediately from a Security Council vote on Palestine. But there would be painful repercussions in the long run
By Raphael Ahren
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands (Vincent van Zeijst/Wikimedia Commons/File)
January 1, 2015, 7:48 pm
Palestine at the ICC: A headache Israel might be able to live with
War crimes allegations threatened by Abbas could one day produce convictions, but his route ahead is strewn with complex legal obstacles
By Raphael Ahren
US President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in 2012 (Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office/Flash90)
November 4, 2014, 1:44 pm
US veto at Security Council may no longer be a given
With ties growing colder, some in Jerusalem fear Washington’s protection at the UN cannot be taken for granted, and that the midterms may further complicate the picture
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Israeli soldiers who were injured during Israel's Operation Protective Edge, at the Soroka Medical center in Beersheba on August 04, 2014. (Photo credit: Haim Zach / GPO/FLASH90)
August 7, 2014, 4:07 pm
Is PM on solid legal ground with his defense of IDF tactics?
Citing Protocol 1 of the rules of war won’t help when it comes to dead children, says expert, but Israel’s ‘careful’ approach would be vindicated in a neutral court
By David Horovitz
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