| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Philippe Sands on International Law - a very relevant lecture | |
| Posted by: | Steven Rose | |
| Date/Time: | 10/03/26 17:35:00 |
| In point of fact, Jonathan, the phrase ‘imminent threat’ does not appear in Article 51 of the UN Charter which permits the right of self-defence. This is a gloss which some jurists have subsequently placed on the Charter. In any case, as far as the Israelis are concerned, the threat from Iran is not just imminent or potential but actual and ever-present given that Israel has been the target of constant rocket attacks over many years by Iranian proxies. The question that the critics of Israel need to answer is the one I posed in my previous post: ‘Should Israel wait until their Iranian enemy has increased its stockpile of missiles and produced a nuclear bomb before responding militarily? |