Word of the Day – Casus belli

• Noun: Casus belli
  1. an event or action that justifies or allegedly justifies a war or conflict
• Synonyms:
  1.  affront
  2.  harassment
  3.  insult
  4.  cause
  5.  challenge
  6.  grounds
  7.  incentive
  8.  inducement
  9.  injury
  10.  instigation
  11.  justification
  12.  motivation
  13.  offense
  14. provoking
• Usage:
  1. “He hadn’t forgotten Ben-Gurion’s pledge at the end of the Suez Crisis that Israel would consider any blockade of its shipping a casus belli, an act justifying war. “
• Encountered:
  1.  While reading Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch

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