SOUTH Africa’s morally upright position, geopolitical astuteness, and honest commitment to Nelson Mandela’s promise to support the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people dominated international public discourse this week.
This was in the wake of hauling the state of Israel to the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide in Gaza.
So far, Israel has killed just over 24 000 Palestinians in a wave of relentless, indiscriminate bombings of the Gaza Strip. Hospitals, UN-run refugee camps and schools, residential areas and anything that moves – from ambulances to livestock – have not been spared.
More than 10 000 children and over 6 000 women are part of the sad statistics in Israel’s so-called war on Gaza, where the Jewish
