THE International Court of Justice has delivered a legal blow to the decades-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. In a non-binding advisory opinion, sought by the UN General Assembly, the ICJ has endorsed what many around the globe already know: that Israel has been illegally occupying Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the 1967 war. The occupation, the court added, was impeding the Palestinians’ right to self-determination, while it asked the international community not to “render aid or assistance” to Tel Aviv with regard to its presence in the occupied territories. The ICJ........

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