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Israel will appear at the Hague to contest South Africa's genocide accusations (www.middleeasteye.net)

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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.

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[-] ShroOmeric@lemmy.world 160 points 11 months ago

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

Idiot. Without elaborating.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 74 points 11 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.

[-] panchzila@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

So it stopped working a while ago but sadly it seems to be working?

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 13 points 11 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.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Just needs some tiny electoral reforms and then it'll stop working

[-] frshmt@lemmy.zip 32 points 11 months ago

“no u” -Israel

[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 17 points 11 months ago

Same as Trump. Or debates on Fox News. Classic angry right-wing yelling lol.

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