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Abstract

“War is the continuation of politics by other means” – a proverb held by the military strategist, Clausewitz. This sentence is highly relevant in our understanding of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict which has had its own life-cycle since the beginning: when negotiations collapse a military phase begins. In the year 2014 the region saw more violence than diplomatic negotiations to solve the long-lasting conflict. The failure of the significant efforts of John Kerry to achieve a final status agreement for the West Bank and Gaza Strip until the spring of 2014 forced both Israelis and Palestinians to increasingly influence the international audience to support their truth. On the one side the renewed conflict in Gaza in the summer of 2014 prompted the Palestinian Authority to portray Israel as an oppressor, which breached the basic tenets of international humanitarian and war law. On the other side the Netanyahu government argued with using the right of self-defense in Gaza against a terrorist group, Hamas.