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Palestinian rescue workers carry a wounded prisoner past a fire after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza.

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Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

"Just War Moral Philosophy and the 2008–09 Israeli Campaign in Gaza"

    Author:
  • Jerome Slater
| Fall 2012

The controversial 2008–09 Israeli campaign in Gaza violated just war principles on three main accounts: it did not discriminate in its targets, there was no just cause, and it did not exhaust nonviolent alternatives. Human rights organizations have criticized Israel for its methods during the campaign, but its claim that the attack was an act of self-defense and was therefore justifiable is still widely accepted. The campaign’s primary purpose, however, was to crush resistance to Israel’s repression of Gaza—an indefensible cause by just war standards. Moreover, Israel did not fully explore political alternatives before launching the attack.

Muting the Alarm over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

Muting the Alarm over the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Author:
  • Jerome Slater
| Fall 2007

The United States' near-unconditional support of Israel's policies toward the Palestinians has been disastrous not only for Israelis and Palestinians, but also for U.S. national interests. A major explanation for the failure of U.S. policies is the largely uninformed and uncritical mainstream and even elite media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the United States.

Journal Article - Quarterly Journal: International Security

Lost Opportunities for Peace in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Israel and Syria, 1948-2001

    Author:
  • Jerome Slater
| Summer 2002

In a challenge to much of the conventional wisdom, Jerome Slater writes that observers in the United States and Israel have unduly laid blame for the decades-old Israeli-Syrian conflict on the leadership in Damascus. Although both Israel and Syria have been "inflexible, ideological, and prone to maximal demands," Slater says, Israel bears greater responsibility for the lack of a comprehensive Israeli-Syrian settlement.