cyberwarfare by lawyers

[Michael Dahan]

A few comments regarding both articles.

There is nothing that is new in either pieces. There is alot of fluff and
Israeli self promotion in both - in that sense I see both articles as a
form of psyops. Regarding Afek's "groundbreaking" thesis - bullshit.
Perhaps in Hebrew it is unique, but the legal aspects of cyberwar have been
researched and discussed in many forums. The Tallinn document of the EU for
example. International relations theory, political science and legal
theory, within academia and the military have been dealing with this for
years. For example, serious treatment of the concept of "just war" in cyber
terms.

As a senior legal officer in the IDF, Afek is directly responsible, at the
macro level, for whitewashing the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and at
the micro level legalizing Israeli crimes against Palestinians. Exactly the
kind of person you would want to draft a thesis on cyberwar. Not.

One can google Saalbach, or Thomas Ridd as a start regarding a more serious
discussion of cyberwar.

Michael Dahan
On Mar 17, 2014 9:30 AM, "Cari Machet" <carimachet at gmail.com> wrote:

> 'The Jerusalem Post recently interviewed Col. Sharon Afek, formerly deputy
> head of the IDF's legal division, who wrote a 149-page treatise on cyber
> warfare law - the first treatise of that comprehensiveness by a military
> lawyer of his rank and stature.'
>
>
> http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Analysis-How-Israel-is-dealing-with-cyber-warfares-new-stage-345578
>
> 'Many are also asking more strongly than ever: "Is international law still
> relevant?" Afek, who views his treatise also as a "bridge" between the pre-
> and post-cyber world of war, answers with a resounding "yes," but then goes
> further to try to resolve some of the questions of how and where it applies.
>
> One debate in the new wild west of cyberwarfare law is between two schools
> of thought about where to draw the line of which cyber operations should be
> declared illegal under international law.'
>
> http://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/A-revolution-in-war-339962
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