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<\/a>Israel needs to understand that victory must come both on front line and courtroom – editorial<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nJPOST EDITORIAL<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n From the opening hours of the war with Iran on February 28, the fighting spread far beyond launch sites, air defenses, and nuclear facilities.\u00a0Reuters<\/em>\u00a0reported that the campaign began with joint US-Israeli strikes and quickly drew Iranian missile fire at Israeli population centers. On Saturday night alone, Iranian missiles hit\u00a0Arad and Dimona<\/a>, wounding scores of civilians, including children.<\/span><\/p>\n At the same time, a legal and political campaign was already taking shape around the war. NGO Monitor\u2019s March 8 report cataloged statements from international NGOs and Israel-based advocacy groups that framed the conflict as unlawful aggression while, in its account, giving scant attention to Iran\u2019s nuclear violations, its arming of\u00a0Hezbollah<\/a>, Hamas, and the Houthis, and its missile attacks on Israeli civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n The examples are not abstract. NGO Monitor quoted B\u2019Tselem as warning on February 28 that Israel would use the Iran campaign to expand \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d in the West Bank and intensify its \u201cgenocidal assault\u201d in Gaza. It cited Breaking the Silence urging the public not to let the bombing of Iran distract from Gaza and the West Bank. It cited Human Rights Watch statements accusing Israel and the US of unlawful attacks and possible war crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n Reuters<\/em>\u00a0then reported on March 16 that the chair of a UN fact-finding mission told the Human Rights Council that an Israeli strike on Evin prison amounted to a war crime, while Israel said the target was being used for intelligence operations against it.<\/span><\/p>\n Israel has also seen how wartime decisions are pushed into rapid legal review at home.\u00a0Reuters<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Jerusalem Post<\/em>\u00a0reported in late February that 17 NGOs and the Association of International Development Agencies petitioned the High Court of Justice against new Israeli rules requiring organizations operating in Gaza and the West Bank to provide staff details. The court issued a temporary injunction while it considered the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n Whatever one thinks of that petition, it showed how policy made during war can be rerouted almost immediately into judicial and diplomatic pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n Those are strengths of a democracy at war. They are also openings that hostile actors and aligned advocacy networks can use.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\nA coalition of groups come together behind banners to march from Westminster to the US embassy holding signs and flags during the ‘Stop The War’ rally against the strikes on Iran in London, England, March 7, 2026 \/ (photo credit: Martin Pope\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Emergency workers gather in the early hours of March 22, 2026 at the site of an Iranian missile strike hours earlier in Arad, Israel. Dozens were wounded in the strike, which Israel’s air-defence system failed to intercept. (credit: Erik Marmor\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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