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.
“He added that South Africa was complicit in Hamas’ crimes against Israelis, without elaborating.”
Idiot. Without elaborating.
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.
So it stopped working a while ago but sadly it seems to be working?
And it’s up to people to vote, but voting doesn’t work because two party system.
An unrelated paper, but this can still be used to estimate how old are world leaders now:
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.
Just needs some tiny electoral reforms and then it’ll stop working
“no u” -Israel
Same as Trump. Or debates on Fox News. Classic angry right-wing yelling lol.
“We assure South Africa’s leaders, history will judge you, and it will judge you without mercy,” he added.
Oh the irony
They intend on writing history, it’s meant to be a threat.
If you don’t support Genocide against the Palestinians you’re basically Hamas already.
Every accusation is an admission.
When South Africa accuses you of genocide, you know you fucked up.
How come?
He means Apartheid
That one went so far that south Africa is the only country to voluntarily unilateraly give up its nuclear arsenal when a minority risked getting to power
Who were the minority?
Yeah, it’s actually backwards. The minority was in power and was at risk of losing it.
Oh no the white Afrikaaners did lose power. The ANC came to power in 1994. The other commentators post doesn’t make sense for that reason.
What I don’t get is, from all the countries that could have done this (i.e. accuse Israel of genocide in The Hague), why South Africa? Am I out of the loop? Is there a reason they came forward?
Like, I see the irony with genocide and apartheid and so on, I just wonder why South Africa even cares this much about Gaza/Israel (I mean we all do, but no one did what they did, not even Turkey).
Wow, something to be said for someone with such a hateful response to an accusation, almost as if they’re trying to prevent discussion by labelling any potential questioning of tactics as racist to be “judged harshly by the world”. Gaslighting and projecting on full display here.
The tactics lose power when you see and understand them. Spread knowledge.
“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.
This guy’s response is antisemitism buzzword bingo.
Like, seriously, blood libel?
I haven’t read the legal documents, but I’m going to go out on a limb and assume they don’t mention Israel poisoning Palestinian genes with interbreeding.
The more Israel speaks, the deeper the hole gets.
“…but they’re God’s chosen people! surely they would never…”
Israel to The Hague: “Nuh-uh.”
South Africa used to be an apartheid state so if they’re callling you out…
It’s on its way back to it. https://youtu.be/Iiny1GrfhYM?si=JfrWKyZBT5fUneA2
“We assure South Africa’s leaders, history will judge you, and it will judge you without mercy,” he added.
Starting the defense with a menace … anyway, let’s see who is judged by history first
Caught me genociding on Camera. “Wasn’t me”
If this fails to have any effect, I wonder how many more local wars will be started soon on the ground of international law becoming some kind of joke as of lately
“they’re coming right for us, Ned!”
-Israel, probablyIf in the next few weeks you hear of an agreement between Germany and Israel to allow the IDF use of an airforce base within reach of The Hague, it will have to do with this.
an agreement between Germany and Israel to allow… use of an air force base within reach of The Hague.
absolutely wild timeline.
Tell me you’re a terrorist without telling me you’re a terrorist.
Israel is going to blame the US for enabling them
Presumably the US will agree, given that’s the line they take with Israel historically.
