HOPE IS POSSIBLE
THE extraordinary victory by South Africa at the International Court of Justice in The Hague has been met with an exhilarated response by most South Africans, the Global Left and across most of the Global South.
Israel might well ignore the judgment, as it has done with many UN resolutions, and it might not provide immediate relief to the residents of Gaza, but it has broken the key ideological fiction of the West.
The West, led by the US, relentlessly claims that
