This past week, I was in Israel with a group of lawyers from the US, Canada, Bulgaria, and Latvia on a trip sponsored by the nonpartisan Center for Jewish Impact. CJI's general goal is to serve as a conduit between the Israeli private sector and domestic and foreign governments, but it has also run this trip and one before it to give interested "legal elites" more insight into the post-10/7 political and military landscape in Israel. I will probably have more to say about the trip later, but for now I thought I would share what I learned from a presentation from an Israeli military lawyer.

I have heard countless times since 10/7 that Israel has bombed Gaza "indiscriminately" or as "revenge." In fact, every single target has to be approved by Israeli military lawyers, who vet the target to

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