They’ve said nothing, not even to condemn it: the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, the highest court on the planet, was met with indifference in a particular part of the world, the Western world.

There was no comment whatsoever from the European Union and the United States on the extremely serious accusation brought by the ICJ: that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem is illegal, is a de facto annexation and is an apartheid regime. From Friday to Monday, Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, and Sven Koopmans, the EU Middle East envoy, chose to talk about other things entirely.

The former spoke again about the mirage-like Gaza ceasefire negotiations and the Israeli-Palestinian prisoner exchange: an agreement is “close to the goal line” but there are still “critical details,” he claimed.

The EU diplomat scolded Israeli PM Netanyahu for “rejecting the two-state solution.” Who knows, maybe this was intended as a very oblique way (an EU trademark) of hinting at the Hague Court's opinion.

Nothing changes in the Occupied Territories. In East Jerusalem, the al-Qunbar family was forced to demolish their........

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