Document Type
Article
Repository Date
2010
Keywords
Air strikes, Osiraq reactor, anticipatory self-defense, transboundary use of force
Subject Categories
Conflict of Laws | International Law | Law
Abstract
Solarz argued that Israel's air strike "must be considered an understandable and legitimate act of self-defense." The point is that if a war exists between Iraq and Israel, Israel's bombing of the Osiraq nuclear reactor is just a normal and legitimate part of the general conduct of war. Whether or not Israel or Iraq, or both, regarded themselves as being in a state of war, any hostilities between them would amount to separate breaches of the peace in the eyes of the international community and would subject either country to forcible intercession by the U.N. Security Council. I quoted the U.N. Security Council resolution which "strongly condemned" Israel's air strike.
Repository Citation
D'Amato, Anthony, "Israel's Air Strike Against the Osiraq Reactor: A Retrospective" (2010). Faculty Working Papers. 83.
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/facultyworkingpapers/83
