The Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Danger of Conflating Politics with Law
Whatever happened to “It’s legal, but it stinks”?
December 5, 2019
The Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Danger of Conflating Politics with Law
Whatever happened to “It’s legal, but it stinks”?
Most objections to the State Department’s recent determination that international law does not prohibit Jews from living in the West Bank were based, Evelyn Gordon notes, on prudential rather than legal grounds. Citing as examples the statements of the presidential candidates Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, she points to the dangers of this inability, or unwillingness, to distinguish policy from law:
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