Law and Morality in Israel's War with the P.L.O.

The dramatic nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with its pattern of terrorist attacks and counter-terrorist responses, coupled with widespread fears of its escalation to a major war, have assured it intense international scrutiny and constant media attention. Professor O'Brien provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal and moral issues confronting Israel, assessing its role in terms of the international law of war and modern just-war doctrine; he considers, for example, the legal and moral permissibility of Israel's attacks on the PLO in Arab sanctuary states. The author examines the military strategies of the PLO and Israel from 1965 to the present, and provides an overview of the course of their interaction from terrorist raids to the 1982 Lebanon War and the events of the Intifada. This book should be of interest to students and researchers of Middle Eastern politics, international law and security studies.