Monique Beadle and Uri Morad, lawyers with the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, discuss a JIJ position paper defending Israel and America’s preemptive strikes amid the ongoing war between the US, Israel, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. They unpack the 1837 Caroline case’s imminence test, a 1996 International Court of Justice opinion on a state’s right to survival, plus Israeli strikes on illegal nuclear facilities in Iraq (1981) and Syria (2007).

Click here to read the full position paper on preemptive warfare: https://jij.org/advocacy-materials/joint-kinetic-operation-us-israel/

Timestamps

04:07 – Bayonets & Bombs: the Caroline Test

05:30 – ICJ Survival Doctrine

06:35 – The Precedents for Preemptive Action

10:11 – Pinprick Theory

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