ISRAEL CHANGES ITS MIND ON THE FENCE FARCE


Israel has decided not to present oral arguments at the International Comedy of Justice's hearings on Israel's border fence. Instead Israel plans to rely solely on a written brief in which it rejects ICJ jurisdiction over the dispute. While I have sympathy for the decision to not go along with the kabuki theater that is passing itself off as a legal proceeding, Israel may have been better off utilizing the forum as a opportunity to state its case, to steal the thunder of its accusers with a powerful display of the carnage that has driven Israel to build the fence. Either way, the real loser in this case is the movement to build real international legal institutions, which continues to get entangled with the Arab-Islamic anti-Semetism.