Israel recognised Somaliland to gain leverage, but once Somalia declared it an invasion, their next move either confirms the breach or concedes failure. Right, so Israel has now been accused of invading Somalia - not striking it, not threatening it, not posturing around it, but by recognising part of the country as independent and sovereign, which Somalia argues constitutes invasion under international law, namely Somaliland - and that is a problem Israel cannot just talk its way out of. Somalia is the state on the receiving end, Palestinians are being dragged into the conversation now as well, and the reason this matters is because this isn’t a rhetorical row that Benjamín Netanyahu has put Israel in, it’s a legal dead-end. Because this isn’t really about Somaliland at all. That’s just the trigger. What’s actually happened here is something we’v ...