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A Barrel Without Hoops: The Impact Of Counterterrorism On Israel's Legal Culture, Pnina Lahav

Faculty Scholarship

"'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 …