Daily Archives: August 17, 2023
Israel’s long, hot summer
From atop small mountain peaks in the Israeli Golan Heights you can peer deep into both Lebanon and Syria. On the Israeli side of the border, everything is green. Why? Because the Israelis irrigate...
Israel, Counter-Terrorism, and International Law: The Analytic Challenges of ‘System’
“The existence of `system’ in the world is obvious to every observer of nature, no matter whom.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959)
Whether conspicuous or obscure, terrorism generally presents itself as a systemic challenge. This means, inter...