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South Africa Now Wants To Take the US and UK To The Hague
Brace yourselves; this could get messy.
South Africa’s case against Israel in The Hague is utterly historic, no matter which way it goes. But the stakes are about to be turned up to 11. Multiple news sources are reporting that the South African is gearing up to take the US and UK to The Hague for their complicity in Israel’s potential genocide in Gaza. This puts Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak, and other leading figures from the US and the UK at risk of serious charges. But what laws have they broken? What charges could be levied against them? And why is South Africa acting as the global snitch?
Let’s start with the law. Genocide was made a crime in international law by the 1948 Genocide Convention. Almost every country on Earth has signed and ratified this convention, including Israel, the US and the UK. Article iii of the convention not only makes genocide a chargeable offence but also conspiracy to commit genocide, incitement to commit genocide, attempt to commit genocide, and complicity in a genocide. The last part is the crucial part for this upcoming second case, as there is plenty of evidence that the US and UK have not only been complicit in Israel’s potential genocide but have been the sole enablers of it.
