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Friends in Low Places? Behind South Africa’s New Genocide Case Against Israel

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa/Image: The White House, Wikimedia Commons

This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire

By Toby Dershowitz and Max Friedman, RealClearInvestigations, March 18, 2024
Real Clear Wire

Shortly before South Africa accused Israel in the International Court of Justice of committing genocide in its post-Oct. 7 counteroffensive against Hamas, the South African ruling party, the African National Congress, suddenly resolved its longstanding and crippling debt issues.

The court action in December – committing tens of millions of dollars to accuse a nation thousands of miles from South Africa’s borders – appeared less an act of probity than one of cynical collaboration with one of Israel’s fiercest enemies: Iran.

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