{"id":13197,"date":"2011-04-09T08:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=13197"},"modified":"2011-04-09T08:11:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T13:11:56","slug":"israel-reflections%e2%80%93use-of-force-civilian-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2011\/04\/israel-reflections%e2%80%93use-of-force-civilian-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Reflections\u2013Use of Force &#038; Civilian Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In light of the events in Israel earlier this week \u2013 Hamas launched a\u00a0missile attack on an Israeli schoolbus and the Israelis responded with missile attacks into\u00a0Gaza \u2013 one of the speakers from our trip to Israel is particularly on point today.\u00a0 How do you determine an \u201cappropriate\u201d response to the Hamas attack?\u00a0 Here are one student\u2019s reflections on our meeting with Roni\u00a0Lev, the military attorney for the Northern Command of\u00a0the Israel Defense Forces:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For me, Roni Lev was one of the most interesting speakers we had during the trip. She presented on the operational legal questions she would face in her job as legal adviser to the Northern Command of the IDF. I was most interested in how Israeli law has evolved to address targeting and weighing the risk of civilian casualties. It was fairly clear the Israeli military and legal system had devoted a considerable amount of time to those questions, and that Israeli ethics had weighed heavily in the determination of operational rules. The whole discussion was rounded out nicely by Roni\u2019s father, who provided an anecdote from his Air Force days of an Israeli\u00a0pilot who received orders to fire but chose not to because of the probability of substantial civilian casualties. The commanding officer expressed his disagreement but respected the pilot\u2019s decision. Overall, it was an interesting look at how the law tries to solve difficult operational questions, but also how the law will never be able to govern the complex situations that confront the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p>Cross posted at Indisputably.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the events in Israel earlier this week \u2013 Hamas launched a\u00a0missile attack on an Israeli schoolbus and the Israelis responded with missile attacks into\u00a0Gaza \u2013 one of the speakers from our trip to Israel is particularly on point today.\u00a0 How do you determine an \u201cappropriate\u201d response to the Hamas attack?\u00a0 Here are 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