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Israel's deputy Attorney General for International Law Gilad Noam (L), deputy Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel Tamar Kaplan Tourgman and Legal Adviser at Israeli Embassy to the Netherlands Avgail Frisch Ben Avraham attended a court session in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, on 17 May 2024. (Nick Gammon / AFP)
Israel's deputy Attorney General for International Law Gilad Noam (L), deputy Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel Tamar Kaplan Tourgman and Legal Adviser at Israeli Embassy to the Netherlands Avgail Frisch Ben Avraham attended a court session in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, on 17 May 2024. (Nick Gammon / AFP)

On Friday, Israel came before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague with an ask totalling 26 words: "The State of Israel requests the Court to reject the request for the modification and indication of provisional measures submitted by the Republic of South Africa."

It did not take particularly long to make its argument either, declining to use 30 minutes of the two hours it had been granted to do so.  

But within that time, and during its so simply summarised request, it had an extraordinary number of bad things to say about South Africa. 

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