Sultan Barakat, a professor of public policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, says that the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice will be “the most important instrument of international pressure against Israel”.
“The way that South Africa has addressed this issue is that they are purely focused on the fact that Israel, by December 29 when the case was filed, has murdered more than 20,000 civilians without achieving any clear goal, in that they seem to be pursuing a genocide against the Palestinian people and specifically within Gaza,” Barakat said.
The ICJ works slightly differently from the International Criminal Court in that its mandate covers all the state members of the United Nations, Barakat explained.
“And Israel for them it’s very important to be recognised as a state. This is the only country in the world that talks about the right to exist, [whereas] every other state is comfortable within their own foundation.”
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SOUTH AFRICA BUNCH OF CHADS
South Africa increasingly aligned government with authoritarian governments and Dictators. Instead of condemning, HAMAS for killing over 1000 Jewish people in a truly Genocidal act, and are still holding over 100 Jewish Citizens, they go after the country fighting to get its citizens back home.
This from an ANC lead government that has introduced over 100 pieces of Legislation violating more than 1/3rd of Universal Declaration of Human rights, which precludes their Caucasian citizens from accessing 90% of the economy. Not to mention the ANC appointed Judicial system dismissing a hate song calling for the “Kill the Boer” (kill Afrikaans Farmers)- ie ANC supports Genocide of its own Caucasian farming community, who are murdered in higher numbers than anywhere else on earth. The South African Police have the dubious honor of a 98% failure rate at prosecuting crime in SA. There were more citizens murdered in South Africa than Afghan citizens during that 20 year war, and More South African have been murdered than Ukrainian citizens since Russia invaded that country.. and to top it off More South Africans are murdered per year than have allegedly (by Hamas propaganda), than been killed in the Gaza conflict since the ANC have introduced their communist party constitution in 1997.. Period
Respectfully the South African Case is doomed based on the fact that over 70% of Palestinians support Hamas actions on the 7th October and are therefore complicit in kidnapping and holding the Israeli citizens captives.. Israel are justified in fighting the Hamas to get back its citizens! .. any accusation of Israeli genocide against anyone holding its citizens captive has no legal standing!
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Its time for the terrorist state of israel to face some accountability.
Why are Arab countries not following similar steps ?
Convict the Israeli government for all the war crimes they did not just the past three months but the last 75 years
ONLY when ICJ rules Ceasefire Now BECAUSE there is an ongoing case, then and ONLY then will the ICJ be taken seriously. Until then, ICJ is complicit in covering up for Israeli war crimes, similar to ICC. There is NO reason to delay case BECAUSE Israel is the attacker who started the war 1947 and therefore has NO rights to claim any rights to defend itself. Nuff said
They claimed Zuma was the worst South African Leader.
Wrong Ramaposa i forgets Jews finance built South Africa. Nelson Mandela going to. jail seems in vain because of him!!
Apartheid seems better than him.
His Countrymen are suffering
Crime has increased. Instead of minding his own business, and focusing on his own Land he goes ahead and makes the worst decision. Sort out your own children’s first!!
How would you react if Oct 7 happened in South Africa to your own children as a father?, A husband a Leader?
GREED has over taken him..He has put his people up for sale!! After the sacrifice in jail..
South Africa needs a new Leader.
Does he have any idea what his doing..?
His lost it completely!!
He needs help
icj only matters if they have teeth & are able to put boots the ground to intervene, and go after the Israelies for wAr crimes..
This feeble minded corrupt Marxist, ANC government of South Africa cannot even look after the interests of it”s own civilians and crucial basic humanitarian services such as access to clean water and electricity. Municipalities and government departments such as police, postal services, transport etc. are either disfunctional or insolvent due to corruption, incompetence, theft and in particular, their BEE apartheid policies by which ethnic discrimination are being imposed on businesses and minorities since 1994. This gangster regime is not in a position to file a case against any other country before addressing its own shortcomings.
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Muslim states are impotent. They are stooges, your people will not forget your inaction.
I am sure Palestine will be free. May god almighty help Palestine and the people of Palestine. May humanity wins.
disgusting seeing zionist clown doing same dirty trick over and over,playing victim as always and now they act like they’re the victim of GENOCIDE😂😂😂😂😂,hey animal zionist what does it means when you are killing thousands woman, childrens and babies?
Thank you to South Africa for being on the right side of history
Ridiculous. But why not relocate the Gazans to South Africa? No one else wants them.
Where is Muslim leaders they should woke up and follow South Africa
It’s rich coming from South Africa, when South Africa is itself causing massacre and genocide of it’s white farmers as well as rapes of the white women. South Africa is the Hamas of Africa.
ANC needs Muslim votes😂😂😂😂 they failed their own people
We stand with Israel & do not support the decisions made by South Africa against Israel despite being a South African citizen. Clearly SA is oblivious to the October 7th attack & applaud injustice, Terrorism , massacre.
This step SA took will cost them dearly in the future. But with a communist government, they would not know better. It’s all part of the plan to bring SA down on its knees.
Terror attacks….. fine!
Fighting back….. how dare you!!
What a joke South African government makes me sick. They want to do this how about cleaning up your own genocide. Since 1994 thousands of WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN have been murdered, raped and tortured. The government litterly ripped food out of church goers hands and said that poor white people are not allowed to be given food during COVID. After the floods and Covid the government boldly stated that only black farmers will be helped. And let’s not even talk about their BBE+ nonsense. The world must wake up and look closer before saying anything positive about these South African “government ” MONSTERS.. People should also get their facts straight. Gaza was given to Palestinians in a great shape, including green houses for them to grow food. Hamas destroyed everything burned/ bombed everthing and harmed their own people. They started it Hamas is evil.
When six old Palestine armpity child says he has seen 6 wars, the world must say TO RESTORE CORRECT DEFINITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS PALESTINE MUST BE FREE STATE 🇵🇸
Let me be very clear. This is not South Africa filling this, it is the ANC. Which is a declining party. Dont confuse the country and its people with the political actors.
Thank you South Africa for displaying the moral courage and humanity needed at this time of extreme human suffering. I regret that Australia seems incapable of exercising any similar expression human concern – except in the form of empty rhetoric, that is!
THANK YOU SA ( ANC ) FOR ALL THE CRIME , MURDERS , UNEMPLOYMENT, LOADSHEDDING, BEE AND NO JOBS FOR WHITES , GENOCIDE TO WHITE FARMERS , FALLING APART OF ALL GOV DEPARTMENTS, POVERTY , CORRUPTION OF ALL CADRES , THANK YOU FOR F…………WHAT??????????????????
South African Gov couldn’t have worked this out for themselves. They are the puppets of Russia or Iran on this.
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Thanks from Germany
The difficult thing to consider is that only one nation has brought this case of genocide forward.. Full power to South Africa in their case which is beyond obvious.. Where are all the other nations supporting this? All politicians in support of him in the UK & USA should be held accountable with complicity.
The other country leaders are all in bed with isreal
The other country leaders are all in bed with Israel
Thanks South Afrika for disarming the agents of Impunity Uncle Sam and Her Younger Brother implementing a modern Colonial Settler project through ethnic cleansing ,massacres and probably genocide.
I sympathise what has become of Uncle Sam with all dollars spent on charity as soft power.Its all gone in smoke as materials cannot be a life or Self-determination
As an American Army Vet that is permanently disabled after serving my country in Operation Iraqi Freedom; then finding out it was all a lie, and now knowing that Israel gave America false intel about WMDS in Iraq, I couldn’t be more disgusted with America, and this disgusting love affair we have for Israel.
America racked up almost 15 trillion dollars in debt after the war in Iraq, and it was all because we were lied to by a foreign country that doesn’t care if their endless wars that THEY STARTED bankrupt America.
Biden is a puppet of these people and it’s our responsibility as Americans to do something about this and expose the evil in Washington.
Having Israeli citizens like former AIPAC lobbyist Chuck Schumer is a HUGE Conflict of interest. Ron Klain, Bernie Sanders the Israeli Communist, Blinken, Raskins, Garland, Neuland, Soros, Schiff, Nadler, Engle, Rosenstein, Weissmann, Blumenthal, Mayorkas, Yellin and so many more are the ones calling the shots; and we have no power anymore.
If you criticize these crooks they will call you “antisemitic” and use that word to shut you up, and to silence you into ideolological conformity.
They are bullies and these bullies need to be exposed and exiled for their crimes.
Shame. SA racist government pointing fingers.
Much love to South Africa!! ❤️ Free Palestine
Cant wait to see Israel finally held accountable for crimes against humanity.
South Africa the only African country with balls
South Africa😂😂😂😂they should worry how many people are murdered in the country.
75 people are murdered daily.
Times that by 365 days you will be shocked.
They have genocide in their country.
Trying to win points for the election coming up.
Thank you AlJazeera, TRT and a few more for standing with Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸 Your support will bring awareness to this Genocide that Israel is committing 🙌
Long live South Africa 🇿🇦🇵🇸
Well done South Africa. You have got the back bone to stand up and take Israel genocide war crime to ICC
why other countries did not join !! COWARDICE 4:01 OR AMERICA GOT THEM BY THEM by the BALLS ??
Even deep with our own problems, our government did Palestinians proud. South Africa did that!
May God bless Israel.
What about the genocide against white South African farmers??? SA must first sort out its own genocide problems
No they’re not concerned at all
SA has a corrupt useless government whi h is about to be voted out of power in a few months
Yes, SA had a corrupt government and many would argue it can’t run a country let alone a bath!
I fail to understand what is the connection between being corrupt and filing an indictment prepared by expert legal minds that has the support of many in the international community.
Don’t blur the lines between what works in SA and what does not work. Not everything is broke!!
Where are the coward , shameless arab kings and arab nations and their people…..why OIC not filing a genocide case agaist these isreali American European war criminals in the ICC….do they have any shame left in them….. only iran is fighting against these war criminals which is not even an arab nation….shame on these arab kings and arab nations and their people.
Because it’s the ICJ not the ICC of which neither the US nor Israel are signatories.
The ICC is a completely different entity to the ICJ.
@@jumpinjackflash7140 thanks for catching my typing mistake….who is signatory and who is not …. doesn’t matter….afterall icj is in hague which means in the west who is one of the prime supporter of the genocide of palestenian in gaza along with US and isreal…so indirectly icj is a puppet of these countries….if icj takes any action regarding this then it will be miracle and it will expose the fake democracy in American and European countries which is already exposed to the world.
Дикари до сих пор угождают своим белым хозяевам,фашистам европы,росии,сша,англии а хозяева им ресрект вам,комедия.да эти палесты горилами их называют
Bravo S.A
South africa does not understand what is genocide!!!
Like you I’m also a Saffa 🇿🇦 and I would suggest you take the trouble to research and actually read the 63 page indictment prepared by expert legal minds. The evidence is incontrovertible and damning with a pattern of brutality that pre-dates Oct. 7.
Before you clap back at me, I’m not supportive of Hamas either and quite frankly they’ve also descended into prehistoric barbarism. The problem is Hamas is a terrorist organisation and not a legitimate administration so they can’t be charged.
I would further add that the government has demonstrated a typical hypocritical stance on the Israel Gaza conflict by not taking the same position against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. But both cases need to be seen and adjudged in isolation and the one has nothing to do with the other.
Opinions are subjective and I don’t share yours. On the contrary the indictment FULLY supports SA’s understanding of genocide and it’s definitions as determined by the UN and Israels actions meets those definitions and criteria.
What about jews that were slaughterd that was genocide!! Its not about the gazans they carw less if they live or die! No its about their lapdoggie hamaz! Thats what all the fuzz and buzz is about! Because they care about radical islam idiolodgy!
The rest of the world should be ashamed that the only country acting with any humanity is South Africa. So admirable.
Israel cannot successfully defend itself with so many evidence of manslaughter in Gaza. No way guys
Yes Israel should pay for this Barbarian act in the name of Christianity
The Arab countries have allowed themselves to be divided by America through hypocrisy, as a result they have remained observers while their fellow Arabs in Palestine are being murdered, by these monsters.
It has taken South Africa which is far away to stand practically for the Palestinians.
What Israel and America are doing in Gaza is catastrophic.
It is a tragedy.
I Truly Hope Justice Will be Served Unlike in the Past! Seems like the World is being Ruled & Ruined by Evil MEN in Posh Suits 👿
Whats the difference between putin and nethanayu…absolutely nothing….both autocratic thugs
(zionist Biden, indeed!)
(zionist Clinton, zionist Trump– but more Trump)
It’s really a DISGRACE that Israel can say …they reject…WHAT???THE FACT that they have slaughtered a whole generation.!!!!the behavior from these supposed CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD…
this GENOCIDAL REGIME.!!!!
The Hamas Charter calls for the extermination of Jews. The Israeli Constitution calls for all peoples in the Holy Land living together in peace. Hamas calls for Day of Rage against Jews around the world. Jews are killed by Hamas from Britian to Brazil. Israel defends itself against an enemy sworn to its destruction. If the Arabs stop fighting, Israel will stop. If Israel stops, the Arabs will keep coming. WHO IS COMMITTING GENOCIDE?
How useless is this South African government. Trying to hide its own short comings and atrocities towards its own people behind this atrocious action against Israel. ….
…. But then, the God of Israel is not asleep and will see to anyone against the Jews. Read the Bible and learn and tremble.
Terrorist groups
Jewish Zionist
Christian Zionist
Evangelical Zionist
Гордость не гордость обыкновеный фашизм подерживает и натравляет палестинский сброд и прочих дикарей своих
Proud of my country South Africa
Usa 🇺🇸 killed ushama laden,saddam hussin qaddafi etc
Guilty guilty guilty Netanyahu must be dealt with. Public flogging in Gaza for all to see
Countries should join South Africa and drag these Zionists to court
I am one of the witness in support of south Africa’s move. Israel started committing genocide against Palestinians since 1948. Now the world is seriously want that to stop.
This legal move would likely be supported by 2 of the 5 permanent members of the UN- Russia and China.
How will judges vote? See which countries will be voting! Mission impossible! 😢😢😢
Thank you South Africa ❤❤
A Zionist white supremacist colonialist apartheid state will be dragged in international courts by African nation.. Oh their ego will suffer!!
South Africa is a basket case trying to punch above its weight.
Watch…..the USA will bully and BUY OFF any and everyone to get Israel and the USA off
It needed to be South Africa that brought this motion – no other country could have he moral authority that S. Africa has given it’s history of Apartheid, diplacement and the killings of thousands of indigenous people.
Basic rules of what is right and wrong must be agreed, and then every one or nation must adhere to these rules. If they don’t, they must be stopped and arbitration decides the outcome. May be based on the 10 commandments. But no one should do what Israel has done to the Palestinians and get away with it, it must stop. An independent board of people must be able to stop genocide before things get too bad to resolve. Barb
The killers are concerned what a joke
My respect for South Africa 🙏🇵🇸🙏
Salute to South Africa for doing what other countries lacked the spine to do.
“The ICJ (International COURT Of Justice) Will Enhance Impartiality If ‘IT’ Conducts An ‘Inspection – In – Loco/ Site Visit’ In GAZA/PALESTINE’….’The ICJ ‘Probe’ Might Also Unearth The ‘Legitimacy’ Of The Evacuation ORDERS & ‘The ‘Destruction’ Of GRAVEYARDS/CEMETERIES'”
Arab when you will wake up
FOR A FAILED COUNTRY LIKE S A ( ANC ) THEY SHOULD RATHER FOCUS ON ALL THE MURDERS , CRIME , CORRUPTION, UNEMPLOYMENT, GENOCIDE AGAINST WHITE FARMERS , ETC ETC , BEFORE POINTING FINGERS TO A COUNTRY DEFENDING ITSELF AGAINST TERRORISM!!!
Thank you AL Jazerra I miss you, I guess the truth was just too much for the US
You believe Netenyahu when he said “no one saw this coming”?
Netenyahu was being investigated for corruption…
After RETURNING to office under a coalition government…
Turns out HE’S responsible for propping Hamas up in the first place!!!
This “war” is ALL about HIM CLINGING ONTO POWER!
Most of the world is with South Africa in this except the US and the UK they have been boght and paid for by AIPAC a Jewish lobby group.
South Africa will continue to be on the wrong side of history. S.A.changed from a white government to a black one, yet anti-Semitism didn’t leave the building.
The G-d of Israel will win this case!!!. The ANC will for surely be ashamed!!!
LOL ID LIKE TO SEE WHAT ISRAEL DEFENDS ITSELF WITH‼️ WITH WHAT? GUNS AND MILITARY WEAPONS!? Thats all they are good at! I think Ireland should also take Israel to ICJ and other nations too! Its out in the open there is no way Israel can hide what they are doing in Gaza, they are fools as they have openly admitted to the world themselves to ethnic cleansing of the whole of Palestinian population what you have to defend with? Immoral and stupid israel is.!
South Africa we thank you for giving us hope justice will prevail and history will remember for what you so bravely stood up against i hope other nations follow the same path and Palestine is free from these evil Zionists 😢✊🏼🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Nobody respects the International Court of Justice…because they’ve shown themselves to be unjust. Now we call it the International Kangaroo Court.
Proud of true African people they know and tested apartheid behavior in there country and they are against Israel criminal regime.
According to Francis Boyle, the lawyer who won the Bosnian genocide case in the same court, Isreal will be found guilty.
And according Francis Boyle the nations who support Isreal are complicit.
US, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany,…
BUT the court is in the Netherlands and we all know the double standards of the West. So israel will be not found guilty.
Oh Dear South Africa agave you any idea how wonderful you are by standing up & making sure that Netanyahu is brought to justice for his genocide, killing innocent people that is genocide !!!!!
Yes! Your wonderful Nelson Mandela would be EVER so proud of your standing for justice!!!!! I am sure the whole WORLD respect you!! God bless humanity!!!!!!
salute to south africa 🇿🇦
Even America will be exposed to genocide because they help the Israelis someone has to Awnser on why they were killing civilians
Let’s get this straight is this the same South Africa who watch as white farmers where murdered in there hundreds women and children and did nothing one political party calling for the murder of white people its there for you all to see on you tube..😠🇬🇧😠🇬🇧
South Africa is 100% right
Counting on the UN to do anything for people is like counting on Biden doing something for Americans 😂
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The Genocide case is a joke, there is not a shred of evidence that a “genocide” is occurring.
War on civilians is genocide.
The whole world has finally figured out who the real terrorist are
Thank you