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November 9, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.commentary.org/article.asp?aid=11804019_1

The End of the Right of Self-Defense?

(Commentary)Andrew C. McCarthy - The Israeli security barrier is a historically valid, palpably necessary, provably effective, and comparatively tame self-defense measure. The Israeli barrier, while both reactive and anticipatory, is also passive and non-lethal. It thus fits very comfortably within the ambit of legitimate self-defense under international law as either designed or practiced. For a judicial tribunal to have censured it bespeaks a profound corruption of its mission, and one with seismic implications for the future of international law.

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