New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- Ceasefire slows the bombs, not the hunger, as The Hague turns law into leverage and Washington warns annexation could torch the truce

Cairo - On Day 687 of the Israel Palestine Conflict, the ceasefire looks less like mercy than a management exercise, a pause that preserves the machinery of deprivation. The world's highest court issued an advisory opinion on October 22 finding Israel's restrictions breached its obligations and instructing it to facilitate UN relief, a legal blunt instrument that Washington immediately sanded down with caveats. The pattern is familiar, the United States sermonizes restraint while bankrolling the war, and Israel shrugs at law that stands between it and collective punishment. A coalitio...