You never walk out of a boxing match wondering who won. But watching the news and reactions to the International Court of Justice’s order last week in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, you might have been confused.
On one hand, the court found that the allegations of genocide were plausible and ordered provisional measures. Surely this was an indication that the state of Israel had transgressed the law. But then the court did not direct a halt to military operations, which the international community had been calling for in its general assembly resolutions.
