Why Israeli Strikes against Hizballah in Syria Are Legal
International law is never a suicide pact.
March 30, 2017
Why Israeli Strikes against Hizballah in Syria Are Legal
International law is never a suicide pact.
In April 2016, Benjamin Netanyahu admitted publicly, for the first time, that Israel had routinely attacked arms shipments in Syria in order to prevent Hizballah from obtaining advanced weapons—a policy that continues to be in force. While these attacks on foreign soil in the midst of a complex civil war might at first seem to fall into a legal gray area, there is a straightforward case for their legality, as Louis René Beres writes:
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