South Africa recalls its history of struggle Opinions

On December 29, 2023, and after 83 days of the world’s failure to take executive measures to deter the Zionist entity from committing live-streamed massacres, the State of South Africa filed a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of committing the crime of genocide against humanity by bombing the Palestinians, starving them, and preventing access to water. And medicine for them.

The question that arises is: Why was South Africa alone in filing the lawsuit against Israel?

To answer this question, we must recall the history of South Africa’s struggle that led to the taking away of the rights of its people, despite the West’s support for that racist regime at the time.

Common denominators

The lawsuit filed in the International Court of Justice regarding the commission of the crime of genocide is considered a recall of the issue of apartheid, which the people of South Africa suffered for a long time and struggled to achieve their goals of abolishing this racist system, which was achieved in 1994, that is, after 66 years. Who imposed it on them?

There are many commonalities between the struggle of the South African people and the Palestinian people that played a major role in South Africa assuming this role that history will record for it:

• Apartheid began in South Africa in 1948, coinciding with the occupation of Palestine and the persecution and displacement of its people.
• Apartheid is apartheid based on race and color. Likewise, Israel practices abhorrent racism from a religious standpoint as it is the state of the world’s Jews.
• Apartheid occurred through European immigration to South Africa, and Israel was established through the immigration of Jews from all over the world to Palestine. With false religious claims and the displacement of its indigenous population.
• The rights of the indigenous people of South Africa were not recognized, and the same is true today of the Palestinians who own the land. They are without rights despite the signing of the Oslo Accords, which were merely ink on paper.
• South Africa produced historical leaders who suffered greatly from the oppression of the racist regime, the most important of which was the historical leader Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years. The Palestinian struggle also produced historical leaders. Such as the leader Yasser Arafat, who was besieged in the province and died of poisoning there, as well as the martyr Ahmed Yassin, and Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Rantisi.

The price of freedom

• Both racist situations were created through Britain and Western support far from the self-determination of peoples, human rights and democracy.
• The abolition of the apartheid system took place after a bitter struggle for which the people of South Africa paid dearly, and was not presented to them on a golden platter. Likewise, the Palestinians are struggling to this day, and it is a right guaranteed by all international laws. To create their independent state that was stolen from them, and they pay the price for this liberation in blood, migration, and displacement.
• Israel was a major supporter of the apartheid regime, which makes it the right time for the current authority to repay the debt to it.

There are many other important questions that public opinion also asks:

• Weren't the Arabs and Muslims more likely to file the lawsuit, who are linked to the Palestinians by ties of kinship, race, religion, and common history?
• Why did countries – which claim to embrace the values ​​of democracy, human rights and the right of peoples to self-determination – neglect to be the ones to demand this?
• Why didn't we see Russia, China, and even the Brexit countries doing this?
• Why was the United Nations established in the first place? Isn’t it to protect humanity and humanity? Then, aren’t the crimes of genocide, starvation, and bombing of hospitals and places of worship considered a threat to international peace and security, or aren’t their voices louder than the voice of the countries with veto power in the Security Council?!

Is it backfired?

The truth is that this lawsuit submitted to the International Court of Justice frightens the oppressive authoritarian regimes that have committed and are still committing crimes similar to those in Gaza, and at the forefront of those regimes is the Assad regime, which committed war crimes against humanity and forcibly disappeared hundreds of thousands of Syrians.

Likewise, this lawsuit is not welcomed by the great powers that committed similar crimes, as everyone fears that the oppressed and oppressed peoples will benefit from shedding light on these crimes, and that countries will later dare to file such lawsuits, and that South Africa’s lawsuit will turn into a standard case that can be compared to it, and that those who He commits similar crimes. These crimes do not have a statute of limitations, no matter how long it takes to commit them.

What comes after this lawsuit is not the same as before it. The Zionist entity was based on the narrative of the injustice of the Holocaust committed against them, which made the founding fathers of their Zionist entity consider signing the court’s charter to be in their interest. But has the magic turned against the magician? The genocide crimes committed by the Nazis against them decades ago turned them into an unjust entity that committed the worst crimes in the eyes of world public opinion, and they were also hostile to the Semitic Palestinians, especially the young generation and adolescents born after 2000, Generation Z!!