Determining Norms for Warfare in New Situations: Between Military Ethics and the Laws of War

The ethical doctrine of the war on terror is a set of principles that reflects an orderly conception dealing with the proper ways of conducting warfare against terrorism. The ethical doctrine at the background of this article is the ethical doctrine for fighting terror that was developed in the context of the war between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist organizations during the first decade of the century. The authors clarify several aspects of the ethical doctrine of the war on terror as presented in the articles; respond to a few of the arguments raised against it; and point out a number of updates, pertaining mainly to new situations in the war on terror in the Israeli theater and in other theaters.