I have discussed previously in this column the importance of international law, and the ways it has been circumvented, perverted or simply ignored by powerful states over decades.

While the US in effect controls power in the UN, we have recently also seen that even the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been unable to put an end to the violence and destruction in Gaza...

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