Former Apartheid state South Africa charges current Apartheid state Israel with genocide at International Court of Justice
The filing makes for surprisingly engaging reading for a document of international law and is much more concise than its 84 pages suggests. A significant portion is made up of extensive citations and source's of the sort that are known to be recognised by the ICC / ICJ and past warcrimes committed by Israel are also given scutiny as a means to provide context for the charge put forward as Israel's goal, that being genocide, rather than simply allege that ethnic cleansing is the goal. Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians (born to the generation that were killed or run off their land in 1948) has already been criminally achieved in most parts of Israel but a genocide need not be ongoing, it only needs to succeed once for obvious reasons.
Israel's legal team will defend itself at the International Court of Justice before a panel of judges in the Great Hall of Justice but as usual its leaders are full of unrepentant swagger and it gave its expected predictable response in rejecting the genocide claim.
Eylon Levy, an official in the Israeli prime minister's office, on Tuesday accused South Africa of "giving political and legal cover" to the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that triggered Israel's campaign. He added that Israels legal team to the Hague would "dispel South Africa's absurd blood libel"
israels Foreign Ministry released a statement which said South Africa's case lacks a legal foundation and constitutes a "despicable and contemptuous exploitation" of the court.
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