Craig Jones, "The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Military Legal Advice in Israel
Military lawyers have been around in israel for, you know, actually beforee founding of the israeli state. And they had legal services to to the hagana, which was a sort of predecessor, a group of the isIsraeli state. But similar stories, they didn't really do targeting. It wasn't ntil this daniel risner a figured that a document in the book realizest a's an unrealized pten here. He comes on the scene in two thousand. They winnot acgivate this international humanitarian law, gain lawyes, in and essentially start, you kno targeting killing palestinians with some sort of legal process.
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