LEO VARADKAR HAS said he wants to be careful about accusing Israel of genocide given that millions of Jewish people were the victims of it in the past. He said the government wouldn’t use the term unless it was “absolutely convinced” that genocide was occuring in occupied Palestine. The Taoiseach was responding to the question of whether Ireland would join South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the Israeli state’s treatment of people in Gaza. Varadkar said: “I would be a little bit uncomfortable about accusing Israel, a Jewish state, of genocide given the...