“South Africa came to the Court seeking the immediate suspension of the military operations in the Gaza Strip. It has wrongly sought to impute the crime of Cain to Abel.” Those are the sentences from the International Court of Justice that catch our eye. They are from the pen of the court’s only Israeli judge, Aharon Barak, who is also the court’s only survivor of a genocide. And it’s hard not to think that Judge Barak’s powerful mind had a salutary effect.