CRAIG MURRAY All states in the world have a positive duty to intervene to prevent genocide in Gaza now, not after a court has determined the existence of genocide. This is abundantly clear in paragraph 431 of the judgment of the International Court of Justice in Bosnia v. Serbia.

RICARD GONZÁLEZ Tunisia While the entire world looks in horror at Gaza, Egypt, the only country adjacent to the martyred Palestinian strip, apart from Israel, is distracted by rather irrelevant elections. Starting Sunday, and for three consecutive days, Egyptians are summoned to the polls to endorse the dictator who rules the country with an iron fist: Marshal Abdelfattah Al-Sisi.

AMY GOODMAN AND DENIS MOYNIHAN Dubai While lobbyists enjoy virtually unlimited access to COP28, climate activists say they are finding it harder to secure credentials than in previous years. Add to that the United Arab Emirates' authoritarian and strict ban on protests, and the UN climate summit looks more like what climate scientist Kevin Anderson wrote on social media: "a cabal of producers of oil, not a climate COP.