ANDREW RAWNSLEY
The Post Office and a wicked abuse of power
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There was so much history and so much tragedy in that room. For two days, ending last Friday, the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague witnessed a clash between two nations, each shaped by acts that live on in the global lexicon of good and evil.
In one corner, South Africa, which only a generation ago emerged from apartheid, still the universal shorthand for the wickedness of racism. In the other, Israel, established just three years after the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews. In a global courtroom,