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.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
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      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.