Self-Defense Against Peace
Israel's Unjust War on Gaza
Mandel, Michael
http://www.counterpunch.org/mandel02052009.html
Date Written: 2009-02-05
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX8453
Legally and morally, an aggressor cannot rely upon self-defence to justify violence against resistance to its own aggression. The most plausible reason Israel is fighting Hamas (and the PLO before it) is 'self-defence', not against rockets and mortars, but against having to make peace with the Palestinians on the basis of the pre-1967 borders as required by international law.
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