How is it, one might wonder, that in a country where housing and immigration are by general consensus the top two political issues for the public, so much Oireachtas time is being taken up with something that is, objectively, an irrelevance?
South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice accusing the State of Israel of genocide during its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza could be described in many ways, but nobody should labour under any illusion that it will make the slightest bit of difference to the length or the outcome of the conflict that has raged since October 7th.
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