AS EXTREME hunger turned into famine and the death toll exceeded 26 000 in Israel’s genocidal military operation across the Gaza Strip, the world sighed with measured relief in the wake of adverse findings against Israel by the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
The case had been brought against the state of Israel by the South African government. It is a case with diverse and far-reaching geopolitical implications. First and foremost, it does to Israel what has never been done to the Jewish state over the past 75 years of its systematic subjugation of the Palestinian people.
The ICJ ruling strips Israel of its US-induced impunity against international
