When sending Aharon Barak to the Hague, Bibi had an eye on Biden
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For a display of hypocrisy incarnate, you couldn’t do better than the hearings that began last week at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, on South Africa’s claim that Israel is committing genocide in its war on Hamas.
Even a hardened cynic would struggle to grasp so vicious a perversion of justice; massacre victims are portrayed as the aggressors in this conflict, with the tacit approval of international observers. All this, even as over 100 abductees still languish in Hamas’s tunnels, and their kidnappers, presented as victims, feel so confident in the enlightened world’s sympathy that they release a hostage video a day before the start of the hearings.
The term of office for each of the 15 members of the ICJ’s standing panel is nine years, more than twice the tenure of a two-term American president. Just as the composition of Israel’s Judicial Selection Committee determines the character of its High Court, the bodies that select ICJ justices — the UN General Assembly and Security Council — tell you everything you need to know about that operation.
Why did Israel agree to participate in so blatant a show trial? This is a question that’s frustrating Jews all over the world.
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