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Double Effect and Human Rights in War

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Summary
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60% Informative

International Criminal Court sought arrest warrants for Israel ’s prime minister and defence minister over their conduct in Gaza .

The Conservative government objected that the ICC lacks jurisdiction over Israeli citizens.

But the new Labour incumbents of No. 10 abandoned that challenge last week .

Had the reasoning of the panel of legal experts.

been applied to the Allies ’ invasion of Normandy in June 1944 , it would have approved the arrest of Churchill and Eisenhower .

ICC prosecutor’s legal experts say water is a basic human right and its denial violates international law.

Peter Bergen says there is no absolute human right to water, no matter what human-rights idealists believe.

Bergen: Legal reasoning would have judged the Allies invading Normandy guilty of war crimes.

VR Score

68

Informative language

68

Neutral language

44

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

53

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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