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#Israel: Force Majeure as a form of lawfare against Israel? Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

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#Israel: Force Majeure as a form of lawfare against Israel? Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-is-vulnerable-to-force-majeur-claims-shipping-military-supplies-haifa-port-94cf674

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1:21.7

And shipping. Yes, it's that straight forward. It doesn't sound to be something that's caught

1:27.4

up in the war, but it is. Force measure is the legal matter. And as I understand it, a large

1:33.6

container ship evergreen arrived and was not able to use one port too close to the battle in Gaza.

1:42.7

So it moved to another port. But the question of imposing force measure, which means that we're

1:49.1

not responsible for deliveries or the contract. Now I get lost and I need to profess yourself.

1:54.9

This at first reading professor looked like Evergreen was anxious about its containers.

2:01.0

And maybe that's true, but there's clearly a case here that can be made that this is the

2:06.2

beginning of law fair. I need to understand what force measure means in this instance. Thank you.

2:12.3

Okay. Well, the first thing you do when you get a term in a strange language is you simply translated

2:17.3

into English. And what it says is big force. And there is a entire series of documents of contract,

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