UN’s Top Court Puts President Biden on the Spot
Its ruling calling for an end to Israel’s military operations at Rafah turns out to give the Jewish State plenty of room to maneuver, as all eyes turn to the Security Council.
What will President Biden do now? Washington endlessly warned Israel against entering Rafah, creating a global echo chamber in the process and abetting the South Africa-led lawfare war on Israel. Last week Pretoria returned to the International Court of Justice to demand that it order Israel to end the Gaza war. Today the court at Hague partially obeyed, ordering an “immediate” end to Israel’s military operations at Rafah.
As read by the court’s president, Nawaf Salam, Israel must “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.” Is that an escape hatch? In a statement, Israel reacted by saying it “has not and will not carry out military operations in the Rafah area” that would bring that kind of destruction on civilians.
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