The outlaw state of Israel, part I

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Written by Richard Falk and Akbar Ganji on Al Jazeera Richard Falk and Akbar Ganji on Al Jazeera
Published: 21 August 2014 21 August 2014
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Since 1948 Israel has drawn a long list of military aggression, human rights violations and war crimes.

Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies. He is also Former UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights.

Akbar Ganji is one of Iran's leading political dissidents and has received over a dozen human rights awards for his efforts. Imprisoned in Iran until 2006, he is the author of The Road to Democracy in Iran, which lays out a strategy for a non-violent transition to democracy in Iran.


More than 2,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's latest offensive on Gaza [Getty Images]
Israel has become an outlaw state. In his book, The Law of Peoples, John Rawls defines an outlaw state as one that systematically violates the universal principles of human rights, and commits aggression against other nations. Israel is guilty of repeated such violations as well as several massive acts of aggression, making it reasonable and responsible to identify it as an outlaw state.

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