SINCE ITScreation in 1946 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has heard an average of fewer than three cases a year. Many are obscure, such as a dispute over pulp mills in Uruguay. The trial that began on January 11th, though, was one of the highest drama, when it heard arguments from South Africa that Israel was committinggenocidein Gaza.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “War, war crime, or the crime of crimes?”
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