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The left in this country has the wrongheaded notion that proportionality has to do with equivalent levels of response (i.e. only equal levels offorce).
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NOTE – even the poster of this video, using the pseudonym ‘LetsFreeGaza’, appears to concede that it was the ‘activists’ who initiated the use offorce.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010
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The left in this country has the wrongheaded notion that proportionality has to do with equivalent levels of response (i.e. only equal levels offorce).
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Aside from the circularity of saying that force is lawful if the force used is not unlawful, does battery have the same meaning in the US, or is it a more serious infliction offorce?
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Landing armed soldiers on the deck of a ship at night, without warning, in an attempt to take it over is not considered a use offorce??
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010
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Assuming that one takes a global view of the armed conflict (which, I should say, I do not, believing, as I do, that armed conflict with a non-state actor is limited to places of active, sustained, and intense hostilities, but leave that discussion for another post), one need not get into questions of self defense as an independent and broader category of the use offorce.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010
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Which is, after all, what covert action is supposed to be, when successfully carried out as a use offorce.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010
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Landing armed soldiers on the deck of a ship at night, without warning, in an attempt to take it over is not considered a use offorce??
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010
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Aside from the circularity of saying that force is lawful if the force used is not unlawful, does battery have the same meaning in the US, or is it a more serious infliction offorce?
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Landing armed soldiers on the deck of a ship at night, without warning, in an attempt to take it over is not considered a use offorce?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010
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