A warning from Shakespeare’s King Henry V for Netanyahu. Williams, a soldier on the battlefield, is talking about who will be held responsible, on the day of judgment, if the King is leading them to fight an unjust war (although Williams doesn’t realise he’s talking to the king himself):

But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all ‘We died at such a place;’ some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection. (William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 4:1.)

Netanyahu may not be worried by this ghoulish Christian view of the final judgment. For one thing, he may have a different tradition in mind:

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, “I will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing [the Israelites] on the way, when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling ox and sheep, camel and ass. (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, 1 Samuel 15:2-3.)

But I somehow doubt he’s thinking of that either. He just wants to kill Palestinians. And there’s nobody to hold him to account for that.

Certainly not the UN.