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03 Apr

...in 2012 they condemned the Israeli action. This is from the NAM Final Document issued at its 16th Annual Summit: The Heads of State or Government underscored the Movement’s principled position concerning non-use or threat of use of force against the territorial integrity of any State. In this regard, they condemned the Israeli attack against a Syrian facility on September 6, 2007, which constitutes a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and welcomed Syria’s cooperation with the IAEA in this regard. NAM Final Document 2012/Doc.1/Rev.2, para 176 available at: https://www.iranwatch.org/sites/default/files/nam-iransummitfinaldocument-083112.pdf...
03.04.18 | |

21 Aug

...through civil war, PLO and Syrian occupation, terrorist attacks, de facto Hezbollah takeover and Israeli invasions – is going to fail once again to maintain the peace. (Apropos maintaining the peace, former peace negotiator Dennis Ross has an inadvertently comical piece in the Washington Post in which he urges engaging Syria in order to create an “enduring cease-fire” in south Lebanon like the enduring cease-fire Ross negotiated in 1993, and then again in 1996 when the enduring 1993 cease-fire broke down. With apologies to Mark Twain, it seems that bringing...
21.08.06 | |

25 Sep

which Deeks (1) correctly points out that the US and UK both support “unwilling or unable,” (2) claims that “France appears to be prepared to invoke the ‘unwilling or unable’ concept in the Syria context,” and (3) states that Australia is “apparently relying on a collective self-defense of Iraq/unwilling and unable theory.” So at most there is a “broad consensus” of four states in support of “unwilling or unable.” And perhaps there are only two. That’s quite a consensus. This isn’t even instant custom. This is custom by scholarly fiat....
25.09.15 | |

08 Apr

...right is the right to self-preservation, a right that is protected not only by the concept of self-determination but also the right to be free from genocide and crimes against humanity. Nothing in the positive law can take away the right of the Syrian people, under natural law, to resist their own annihilation. I’m not sure that anything in Article 51 automatically prioritizes the Syrian government’s claim to state sovereignty over the right of the Syrian people to self-preservation and the right of other states to exercise legitimate defense on...
08.04.17 | |

03 Aug

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Obama has authorized U.S. military forces to use air power to defend U.S.-trained Syrian rebels if those rebels are attacked by the Syrian government forces. President Barack Obama has authorized using air power to defend a new U.S.-backed fighting force in Syria if it is attacked by Syrian government forces or other groups, raising the risk of the American military coming into direct conflict with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. … “For offensive operations, it’s ISIS only. But if attacked, we’ll...
03.08.15 | |

17 Jul

Ty If 5,000 people die in Syria each day that means 5,000x365=1,825,000 will die in one year. In other words you've copied it wrong. It's supposedly 5,000 a month, which is horrible enough if true. Jessica Dorsey Thank you, Ty, for your good eye on the Syria news item. Indeed it is 5,000 per month and the post is now amended to reflect this....
17.07.13 | |

11 Jun

...and his exchange is not directly part of that debate. Michael Kearney I think it's actually Al Sham, rather than Syria, to which the final S in ISIS refers. Al Sham is the name used for the region which covers modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel & Palestine… It's a significant distinction! Benjamin Davis Just a modest quibble which is on the "A world of geopolitical water has gone under the bridge since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001." This phrase reminds me of the use of passive voice by various Administrations...
11.06.14 | |

22 Mar

...by the majority of Muslims anyway. But such rallying cries resonate in some sections of Muslim societies today. Both of you have said that people on each side thought they were fighting in self-defense. Madden: By 1095 when Urban II called the First Crusade, fully two-thirds of the old Christian world had been conquered by Muslim armies. Aside from the Holy Land, Muslims had conquered all of Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain. In addition, Asia Minor (modern Turkey) had only recently been conquered by the Turks. The Crusades were,...
22.03.06 | |

20 Aug

...engage in collective self-defense. Certainly not self-defense in view of the beheading of one U.S. citizen. Consent from what is left of the rebel organization in Syria that some time ago had been declared to be the legitimate representative of the Syrian people? If the U.S. does not have a viable claim to use force in Syria under international law, the recognized presidential authority under Article II of the Const. to faithfully execute the Laws (including int'l law authorizing the use of force, e.g., in self-defense) will not be applicable....
20.08.14 | |

19 May

...does not seem to include recognizing the dramatic consequences of 1) our war of choice in Iraq or 2) our torture with the complicity of the precise leaders against which we rail (Libya, Egypt, Syria). Our lack of integrating in our strategy accountability domestically for our own high level perpetrators/enablers of oppression in the Middle East is a bit much. We rail against Khaddafi in Libya and Assad in Syria in what they do to their own people, yet stand silent about what Bush did in Iraq (the present refers...
19.05.11 | |

02 Jun

...many Arab states declared war on Israel, and while some of them (Egypt, Jordan) have made peace, others (Syria, Lebanon) are still formally at war with Israel. Palestine was to be partitioned into two countries, but Gaza was seized by the Egyptians. Gaza is now unoccupied territory not part of any recognized country, but run by Hamas an ally of Syria and Hezbollah who are part of a formal international armed conflict. There are, therefore, several different competing legal theories about why Israel is entitled to blockade Gaza. It could...
02.06.10 | |

18 Feb

...of recognition of belligerency would be considered to still be in place [which is doubtful after the adoption of the 1949 Geneva Convention, which extended (part of) the laws of war to fighting between a State and an armed opposition group - as did recognition of belligerency do prior to that time, although such recognition obviously served more purposes], and be considered applicable for Syria, it would only apply to the part of the Syrian opposition that has in fact been recognised (SNC). However, in the diffuse Syrian conflict there...
18.02.14 | |