Israel's policies towards the holy city will guarantee that the desired peace process continues to elude Palestinians and Israelis.

The most common modern pirates are multinational corporations operating beyond the rule of law. The U.S. can and should take firm measures against this kind of piracy, just as we have against the Somali pirates.

Claims to ostensible moral and civil superiority and the now decades long U.S. and Israeli capacity to remain beyond the reach of international law has left the human rights community's looking for legal alternatives.

Upon returning from a National Lawyers Guild fact-finding mission in Gaza, I believe it is of the utmost importance to speak to Anthony Cordesman's resounding dismissal of international law.

The UK and the US have "actively undermined" international law in the way they fight terrorism, a report by judges and lawyers has said....

In recent months, a number of warrants, arrests, and prosecutions have provided African countries with an opportunity to test the international criminal legal regime.

Dershowitz of course fails to mention that Israel has never ended it's occupation of Gaza, and itself broke international law when it broke the cease fire.

The real question is whether "proportionality" remains a useful category of analysis. By any accepted interpretation, the standard has been repeatedly violated by both Israel and Hamas.

Hamas did not start this conflict. Here's an extensive time line of events, making clear that Israel broke the ceasefire, not Hamas.

In the past, the most effective means of ending piracy was to destroy their base of operations.