Ed covered the ruling by the United Nations International Court of Justice regarding a potential “genocide” in Gaza yesterday, but the ICJ’s strange conclusion has a few more odd elements to it that are worth examining. The court was handling a case brought by South Africa, a nation that somehow supports Hamas, which accuses Israel of engaging in genocide against the Palestinians. They also requested that the ICJ order an immediate ceasefire in the war. While the wording of the court’s ruling was indeed shameful (as Bibi Netanyahu called it), they wound up failing to deliver on either of South Africa’s demands. There was no demand for a ceasefire and instead of finding Israel guilty of genocide, they simply urged Israel to “do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts of genocide in Gaza.” In short, they essentially took the same position that the White…
UN Court Won’t ‘Order’ Ceasefire in Gaza – HotAir
