The war in Iran has once again highlighted the process of “Israelization” of the law of armed conflict:
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The war in Iran has once again highlighted the process of “Israelization” of the law of armed conflict: the phenomenon by which the rules governing what is not allowed in war are reduced to the bare minimum.
Yesterday, the United States carried out a surprise attack in the middle of negotiations; it was also a strike squarely aimed at the civilian political leadership.
In 1986, Reagan had to deny that the attack on Tripoli was intended to kill Gaddafi. At the time, it was considered too barbaric to target the leader of a country, even if he was accused of sponsoring terrorist attacks.
In 1999, the option of killing Serbia’s leader, Milošević, was explicitly ruled out by the coalition, because the head of a state, it was argued then, was by definition a non-combatant.
Today, the goalposts have been pushed much further. If you can get away with it, political assassinations - even when carried out while diplomats are still talking - have effectively become an accepted tool of foreign policy.
posted by Satish Sharma at
04:42
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