International law will need to change in order to confront an emerging warfare of terrorists using civilians as human shields, said Israeli United Nations ambassador Gabriela Shalev at Yeshiva University on Tuesday, November 10. "This is… the modern warfare, where sovereign countries have to fight terrorist groups that use their own people, the people they have to protect, as human shields," she said.
Identity holds great power over our lives. That's what we have been taught since the minute we were born, when our wrists were tagged with our names, weights, and dates of birth. Identities allow us to stand up and declare that we know who we are and from where we come.