The United Nations has declared a famine in Gaza City, Israel has stepped up its military intervention on the ground, and only inadequate quantities of humanitarian aid is reaching the Palestinian enclave ravaged by two years of bombing. More and more specialists in international law are now talking in terms of genocide in Gaza. So are experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council and international and even Israeli NGOs. National states are still divided on the issue, with Western nations mostly shying away from use of the term genocide before a ruling by international judicial bodies. Israel denies any...