ELECTION DISTRACTION
THE South African government’s charges against Israel of genocide before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will, whatever its ruling, be a seismic event.
It seems legally inconceivable that the genocide accusation, which will take months, possibly years, to be ruled upon, will succeed. If it were to, there are many nations, most of them anti-Israel, who would soon find themselves in the same dock. However, it seems equally likely that some kind of provisional intervention will be granted, with the ANC government
