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And to many it is a powerful casus belli to which a head of government has now lent credence.
ECONOMIST: Mahathir Mohamad
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The U.S. government should privately indicate to Pyongyang that any sales to terrorist groups would be a casus belli risking devastating retaliation.
FORBES: Turn The Problem Of North Korea Over To Its Neighbors
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The closest thing to a casus belli in Britain's drug war is a schedule of banned substances drawn up in the early 1970s.
ECONOMIST: Illicit drugs
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But there is a danger that the failure to find an Arab-Kurdish solution for the disputed land will give the insurgents a perpetual casus belli.
ECONOMIST: Security in Iraq
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Hypocritical perhaps, but the moral imperative not to let Mr Milosevic's brutality stand was a more convincing casus belli than Serbia's mere refusal to sign up at Rambouillet.
ECONOMIST: The roots of the Kosovo calamity
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In the event Saddam did not acquiesce this "last" time, we are assured, it would provide a casus belli that would enjoy widespread, if not universal, international support.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
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In staking this false claim, as it did with the Shaba Farms on Mount Dov in the Golan Heights in 2000, Lebanon is setting up a casus belli against Israel.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Path to the Next Lebanon War
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The PLO was founded, and funded, by Arab leaders as a terrorist proxy before 1967 -- that is, before Israel gained the disputed territory of the West Bank that retroactively served as a Palestinian casus belli.
WSJ: Ruth R. Wisse: Bush Destroyed a Dictator. Clinton Installed One.
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The bad news would be if, in addition to an intensified Intafada, Israel's other foes notably Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Libya perhaps joined by her two "partners for peace, " Egypt and Jordan, were to use Sharon's election as a casus belli.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: New Wind Blowing in the Middle East
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But George Bush and Tony Blair will no doubt be hoping that the casus for their victorious belli turns up soon.
ECONOMIST: The conflict is over. Now for the casus belli