Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1988
ISSN
0270-5192
Publisher
Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
"'Israel's Defense Forces without law is like a barrel without hoops.'"
Terrorism challenges basic notions of Justice and Law. It demoralizes the State by exposing the inability of its institutions to protect life and liberty. It is the tool of desperados, whose devotion to a given cause has dehydrated their conscience, for whom no means is too ruthless in the struggle to attain the end. Once a society has tasted terrorism, its members expect to be struck anytime, anywhere, and for no reason other than their membership in that society. Only through tremendous inner strength can a society exposed to terrorism maintain its faith in concepts of due process and human dignity, as applied to both the society's members and its enemies.
Recommended Citation
Pnina Lahav,
A Barrel Without Hoops: The Impact of Counterterrorism on Israel's Legal Culture
,
in
10
Cardozo Law Review
529
(1988).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2218
Comments
Republished in 33 State, Government and International Relations 19 (1990).