""Furthermore, as Gideon Levy accurately wrote in Ha'aretz – as Dershowitz surely discovered in his Google search -- the IDF kidnapping of civilians the day before the capture of Cpl. Shalit strips away any "legitimate basis for the IDF's operation" -- and, we may add, any legitimate basis for support for these operations.""

Example above of Israeli "self defence".

The kidnapping of two civilians (identified by non Hamas neighbours as a doctor and his brother named Muamar) and subsequent claims that they were terrorists, apparently in retaliation for the "kidnapping" of Corporal Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by the Palestinians twenty four hours LATER!!

Don T.