Communications

A new poll has revealed that 47 percent of Israeli Jews believe Israel should not obey international law and moral values during Israel's war on Gaza. The poll's findings were released on Sunday by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

Pnina Sharvit Baruch, an Institute for National Security Studies researcher and former head of the military advocate general's international law department, said a small minority of those opposed to the investigation believe the alleged abuse is “justified revenge against people who committed terrible things on October 7”. “A bigger portion say that our soldiers shouldn’t be...

Israel would probably ignore an interim order by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to stop its assault on Hamas in Gaza, the former head of the Israel Defense Forces’ international legal department has said. “I really hope that the court doesn’t give an interim order that would compel Israel to choose between abiding by a judicial order or defending itself,” said Pnina...

“This is different,” said Pnina Sharvit Baruch, who previously led the Israeli army’s international law department. “Hamas is open in aiming to destroy the state of Israel and any peaceful resolution of the conflict.” As in 1948 when Israel, soon after its founding, was attacked by its Arab neighbors, she said, “our existence is at stake, and we are fighting here for our...

Professor Asa Kasher, the man we were going to visit when we had to dive for cover, is a philosopher who co-wrote the IDF’s first Code of Conduct in the early 1990s. "Non-combatants shouldn’t suffer," he says. "We keep this regulation very carefully. We will never just drop a bomb like during the Second World War, [when an airforce would] take a city, a place full of...