South Africa on Friday launched a case for the ICJ stating that Israel was in breach of its obligations under the Genocide Convention and calling for a halt to its military operations in Gaza.

“The State of Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice at The Hague to dispel South Africa’s absurd blood libel,” spokesman Eylon Levy told an online briefing.

“We assure South Africa’s leaders, history will judge you, and it will judge you without mercy,” he added.

Levy said that Hamas bore full moral responsibility for the war and was “waging from inside and underneath hospitals, schools, mosques, homes and UN facilities”.

He added that South Africa was complicit in Hamas’ crimes against Israelis, without elaborating.

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75•10 months ago

    On the plus side, Netanyahu 's government still doesn’t understand that this stopped working a while ago

    They don’t believe the accusations they’re making, they’re just counting on 80 year old world leaders like Biden still falling for it.

    Sadly, it seems to be working.

    Now it’s on citizens to try and hold their elected officials accountable.

    Unfortunately Americans don’t get much say in it due to the two party system. Regardless of who wins, the winner is going to support Israels genocide.

    Which is going to depress turnout, and that helps Republicans become presidents more than anything else.

    Biden would rather support genocide than prevent trump from taking office.

      • ladEnglish
        13•10 months ago

        An unrelated paper, but this can still be used to estimate how old are world leaders now: world leaders' age chart

        So this statement may be correct, e.g. if we draw a line at 60 and all the leaders that are older fall for it while all the younger don’t, it will be more than half of the leaders that fall for it.

        But really, I’d rather see the median age of state governments of countries, because nothing is usually decided by a leader alone.

      • QuokkaEnglish
        10•10 months ago

        And it’s up to people to vote, but voting doesn’t work because two party system.