The legal foundation of the ICJ opinion is unassailable, rooted in the Fourth Geneva Convention’s core mandate that an occupier must ensure that the territory is supplied with the essentials of daily life
It relies heavily on trust, goodwill, and diplomatic pressure in a region where betrayal, spoilers, and competing agendas are routine. More crucially, it appears to reward decades of violent contestation rather than addressing the root causes of occupation and dispossession
Reframing climate action as a legal duty, world court’s advisory opinion affirms that states must treat it as an ‘existential threat’, adopt targets of the ‘highest possible ambition’, and cooperate to reduce emissions
While Iran faces scrutiny over its potential to develop nuclear weapons, Israel — estimated to possess between 80 and 90 nuclear warheads with the capacity to produce more — attracts little international attention and remains largely shielded from accountability
If we accept the reasoning of the apex court in the AMU case, it means that a religious minority is debarred from establishing a university inasmuch as a university can only be established by a legislature
