First impressions
The law is not always as it seems
"Has Jus Ad Bellum been made redundant?
You have to scroll down to the section "Iran" and then to its sub-heading "Anticipatory self-defence". Rozenberg quotes Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany arguing that the bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities is just a "phase in an ongoing operation ... Prime Minister Netanyahu referred to the future existential risks for Israel posed by Iran’s nuclear programme but also to Iran’s direct attacks against Israel in 2024 and its use of proxies against Israel in and after 7 October 2023".
Cohen and Shany's agreement with Netanyahu's elision of a possible future Iranian Bomb threatening Israel with Iranian aggression through conventionally-armed proxies assumes we are always at war and thus eliminates the possibility of ever going to war."
Things are not always as they seem. First impressions — newspaper headlines, for example — can be misleading. Here are three examples.
Assisted Dying
Last Friday, MPs voted by 341 votes to 291 to give the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill a third reading.
The bill will now be considered by the House of Lords. …
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