On Second Thought: A troubling accusation

As if Americans didn't have enough to worry about, our closest ally, Israel, has been dragged into the International Court of Justice on a charge of genocide against the people of Gaza.

Ominously for our friend's defense, not only has South Africa been able to document plenty of criminal action, as specified by the genocide convention, such as “killing members of the group” (as opposed to combatants) and “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about their destruction “(as in blockading supplies of food and water, then bombing all the houses), but over the l...