Administering the Territories

An Inquiry into the Application of International Humanitarian Law by the IDF in the Occupied Territories

Bibliographic Data

ID23198213
AuthorsAmichai Cohen (Ono Academic College, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume38
Issue3
Pages24-79
Publication date2005-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIsrael Law Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-2237 • E-ISSN: 2047-9336
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021223700012814
OpenAlexW2199859955
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited19

This article seeks to evaluate Israel's implementation of the international law of occupation in the territories which it came to control after the Six-Day War, from a new perspective. Many scholars have criticized or justified specific Israeli policies by comparing them to specific norms of international law. Contrary to this scholarship, this article addresses the questions at the core of current debates over the implementation of international law: Why has Israel chosen to implement some specific rules of international law and to ignore others? And what caused the changes in Israel's implementation of international law? Some of the answers to these questions can be found by examining the interests of various institutions involved in the implementation of International law, and the interplay between them. I suggest that in order to understand Israel's initial behavior one must look at the interests, goals and culture of the Israeli army, the IDF, the institution initially responsible for administering the territories. I shall further argue that subsequent changes in policies are a result of the struggle between the IDF and other Israeli institutions attempting to gain influence over the way the territories were controlled.

Core (optical fiber) · Economics · Institution · International humanitarian law · International law · Order (exchange) · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society

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