Hague ruling on Israel

* UN court's ruling is devastating for Israel and awkward for [its] allies such as the UK and US, which belittled South Africa's case.*

The court did not label the crimes Israel has already committed as "genocide", but pointed out properly that they head in a direction which, if continued, would amount to genocide. And it ordered Israel to bring these crimes to a halt.

The US should help make sure it does so.

If this judgment is not heeded, how can Putin ever be held to account?*