The International Court of Justice rules the hostages should rot ... and that Israel may try to save them

On May 24, the International Court of Justice did or did not give its blessing to Israel’s military operation in Rafah. The court asked Israel to …

Immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. 

Showing its usual bias, international media took this as meaning the court wants Israel to stop its military action in Rafah. Not so, according to four of the five judges who opted to explain the phrasing. ... Read the rest here.

Note: If politics isn’t your thing (and who could blame you), please know that I do write about other things. For example, read my account of my first stay at Arowhon Pines in Algonquin Park here or of my first sport's injury here. 

It’s just that of late, I’ve been pre-occupied with politics because Israel is at war and because Hamas’s atrocities on October 7 unleashed a wave of Jew-hatred around the world – and even here in Canada. See here.