Meanwhile policy makers debate what should happen to Gaza once it has been reduced to a peaceful wasteland. Should it be governed by Israel, the Fatah led Palestinian Authority, the United Nations, or a coalition of Arab neighbours? Israelinsistsit will directly rule Gaza which seems likely sin...
That said, I do not believe that Israel is an occupying power in Gaza under a strict reading of the law. This is because Israel ceased governing and pulled its forces out of Gaza in 2005. Since 2007, Hamas, after expelling the Palestinian Authority, has in effect governed Gaza. An Israel...
“The question is how do we get more consistent in the way we respond to these issues — and clearer about what the rules are and what the tiered responses will be,” said Richard K. Lyons, the new chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, a campus with one ...
President Joe Biden’s advisers have insisted for months to allies at home and abroad that his embrace of Israel has resulted in the least bad outcome in the Gaza war by reining in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s impulses and preventing ...
This is because the U.N does not recognize the self-governed territory of Taiwan. It was a member of the UN from 1945 to 1971. But it is considered the territory of mainland China. Just like Taiwan, the UN also does not considers Kosovo a part of Serbia rather than two different ...
Biden administration has long stated that it desires a cease-fire; the real problem is the administration’s failure to take any punitive steps against Israel, whichhas shown stunning disregard for civilian life in Gazawhile contemplatingradical solutions at odds with international lawanddragging its ...
There is no conceptual reason why such a social reality – unfortunately one of the most ancient forms of intercourse between organized human groups – should not be governed by law. History has shown that the appearance of any reality in a society – be it highly organized or not – sparks...
Saddam’s Iraq was governed by Ba’athists, which is to say Arab nationalists. It was predictable that the United States would purge Arab nationalists from the Iraqi state and, in creating a constitution for its post-Saddam neo-colony, build into it provisions preventing the re-emergence ...
Constitution and the Rule of Law- Jamahiriya (a state of the masses) which, in theory, is a combination of socialism and Islamic law whereby the state is governed by the populace through local councils; in practice, it is an authoritarian state. Everyday law is based on Italian and French...
“She was something different than everybody out there,” veteran guitarist Nile Rodgers, who appears on Mvula’s new sophomore album, explained toRolling Stone. “Even though we’re all governed by similar rules in Western music, she was treating things differently, blending her voice wit...