Amalek, Netanyahu?

SOUTH Africa, a nation that knows what it means to fight for the right of self-determination, on Friday filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of committing genocide in its 13-week bombardment of Gaza. The evil of one people committed against another — horrifyingly aided and abetted by many in the West — cannot be reduced to numbers, but here they are anyway. On this 87th day of the Israeli invasion, nearly 22,000 Palestinians have been killed, of which 8,000 were children and 6,000 women, not to mention the forced displacement of the entire population of Gaza numbering nearly two million. Yet the Lilliputian leaders perched in the seats of power around the…