On Saturday January 20th, the lead story on the top right of the front page or the New York Times was “In Strategic Bind, Israel Weighs Freeing Hostages Against Destroying Hamas: Some Israeli commanders said the government’s two main goals were mutually incompatible.” It opened After more than 100 days […]
Day: January 27, 2024
Texas’ Standoff With The Federal Government Over Border Security
The consequences of this constitutional crisis could still reverberate much further than the Rio Grande and last much longer than the week’s news cycle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared on Wednesday that the federal government had broken its compact with the States by refusing to follow its own border security […]
The ICJ’s Provisional Orders: The Genocide Convention Applies To Gaza
On January 26, legal experts, policy wonks, activists and the plain curious waited for the order of the International Court of Justice, sitting in The Hague. The topic was that gravest of crimes, considered most reprehensible in the canon of international law: genocide. The main participants: the accused party, the […]
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