{"id":38858,"date":"2018-10-08T07:26:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38858"},"modified":"2018-10-08T07:26:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T12:26:21","slug":"israels-gabriella-blum-helped-write-the-laws-of-drone-warfare-nearly-two-decades-later-she-has-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38858","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Gabriella Blum Helped Write the Laws of Drone Warfare. Nearly Two Decades Later, She Has Regrets."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israel\u2019s Gabriella Blum Helped Write the Laws of Drone Warfare. Nearly Two Decades Later, She Has Regrets.<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I<\/span>N 1991, WHEN<\/u>\u00a0Gabriella Blum was 16 years old, the Israel Defense Forces suggested she go see the world. She\u2019d skipped first grade and subsequently graduated high school in Tel Aviv early \u2014 too early to start the mandatory military service all Israelis begin at 18. So the IDF told her to check out Chiang Mai and Mumbai, and to call them in two years. Instead, she joined the IDF\u2019s Academic Reserves, which allows young Israelis to study toward law degrees and eventually work as IDF lawyers. \u201cIt was kind of my version of, \u2018I was young, I needed the money, who are you to judge me,\u2019\u201d she said, smiling. \u201cThat\u2019s how I ended up in law school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blum was a city kid from a left-leaning household. Her father was a physicist, her mother a literature professor. In 1995, when she completed her degree at Tel Aviv University and joined the IDF\u2019s International Law Department, she became the highest-ranking soldier in her family\u2019s history. At the time, the ILD was located in a small office just outside the Kirya, the IDF\u2019s imposing central Tel Aviv headquarters. Blum had gone through basic training, and although she wasn\u2019t obligated to carry her M16 rifle regularly \u2014 \u201cIt was much safer for everyone that I didn\u2019t\u201d \u2014 she interrogated the legality of the army\u2019s actions while clad in her cream-and-olive-green officer\u2019s uniform.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tzahal\u201d \u2014 the Hebrew acronym for the Israeli army \u2014 \u201clets very young people do things that are outrageous to let a young person do,\u201d Blum says now. \u201cIt\u2019s much more apparent when you let a 19-year-old lead other people in battle. But it\u2019s also true for young lawyers. In my unit, we were exposed to some of the most pathbreaking issues. On targeted killings, we were basically pioneers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s Gabriella Blum Helped Write the Laws of Drone Warfare. Nearly Two Decades Later, She Has Regrets. IN 1991, WHEN\u00a0Gabriella Blum was 16 years old, the Israel Defense Forces suggested she go see the world. She\u2019d skipped first grade and subsequently graduated high school in Tel Aviv early \u2014 too early to start the mandatory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[21763,1007,22188,18460,1049,22189,5567],"class_list":["post-38858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-drone-warfare","tag-drones","tag-gabriella-blum","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-defense-forces","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38859,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38858\/revisions\/38859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}