The only International Court of Justice precedent involving Israel is its 2004 advisory opinion on the “Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”. Looking at how the mode presented in a fresh Working Paper (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4687112) fits this case, what is most striking is that it was NOT a polarising issue. Instead, all judges, except the US one, came out against Israel. A pattern of isolation similar to that observed in other UN institutions. The correlation with latent support for the Western-led international order — the main geopolitical cleavage on the Court — is also weak.
