Times: Meron is desperately upset with his former country, but is also too subtle a jurist to adopt that narrative. “The fact is that horrible things are happening in other places too,” he says. “What is happening in Sudan might be even closer to the concept of genocide.
“I am terribly worried and disappointed about war crimes [in Gaza]. I find it all very disappointing, but at the same time, to be fair, I also find that the events of October 7 were totally barbaric and unacceptable.” He is appalled by Israel’s prosecution of the war, particularly the witholding of aid, but reminds me of “the fact that Hamas was embedded in not only civilian habitations, but also in schools and hospitals”…