Far from bowing to US/Israel pressure, Van Rensburg team finalises complicity case
A team of forty-seven South African lawyers is finalising its lawsuit against the UK and US for their complicity in Israel’s genocide and other war crimes against Palestinians. The group, which is led by Wikus van Rensburg, is the same team that filed South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), successfully obtaining the finding of ‘plausible genocide’ that effectively put Israel on trial before the court for the crime.
The lawyers plan to use civilian courts to prosecute those who aid and abet Israel in its crimes through civilian courts, in cooperation with UK and US lawyers.
Rensburg told Turkish media outlet Anadolu Ajansi that it was time for the UK and US to be held to account for their complicity:
The United States must now be held accountable for the crimes it committed. No one says stop, enough is enough.
What happened in Iraq is an example of this; no one held the US accountable for the crimes it committed in the Middle Eastern country as the issue was not given the necessary importance.
The US is busy spending more money and more resources to (allow Israel) commit the crime. If the ICJ trial against Israel is concluded in favour of South Africa, the US may face sanctions even if it does not accept the verdict. The ICJ ruling will also strengthen a case against the Joe Biden administration.
The US must now be held responsible for the crimes it has committed. It must accept its responsibilities. You could not avoid responsibility. The US must now be held accountable for the crimes it committed.
Israel has been lobbying its US allies to use sanctions and diplomatic pressure try to pressure South Africa and the UN’s courts to drop the case, as well as to coerce the International Criminal Court (ICC) not to issue arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister Yoav Gallant. Far from bowing to the pressure, South Africa has responded by taking its legal preparations for the complicity cases forward.
The US and UK have provided direct military assistance to and political cover for Israel during its genocide, in which it has already killed as many as 200,000 Palestinians, while the Starmer regime in the UK is targeting journalists and activists who draw attention to and oppose Israel’s war crimes.
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And I thought our prisons were bursting at the seems now 😀
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excellent, Excellent, EX CEL LENT +++ . THAT’s the way to do it!!!
Nothing ventured nothing gained!!!
NEVER bow to pressure! NEVER bow to bullying!! NEVER believe those who, whatever their motive, use tons of energy and time to tell us; “nothing will ever change”, “keep your head down”,
“nothing can be done”,
“we must JUST talk amongst ourselves”,
If we do this or that OBVIOUSLY necessary action to prevent moral hazard, then “we’ll be attacked”,
“the MSM will go crazy”,
“the Right Wing will go crazy”
etc etc etc on and on with pathetic drivel, OH, and
“we should read and watch only those with with which we already agree, thereby disengaging and responding to the status quo merchants with “off the cuff” remarks, priority being pretending that we are not bothered.
If ANYONE, no matter how revered , EVER suggests we do as they’ve always done, then ask them;
HOW DID THAT GO in THEIR loooong experience
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… and the MURDEROUS ethnic cleansers of Palestinians have in the last few minutes maimed three to four THOUSANDS in Lebanon🩸 Killing yet more men, women, children, and BABIES with the tacit support and funding AUTHORISED by JOE BIDEN🩸🩸
Since the PROMPT return to OVERT back to back foreign invasions instigated and backed by USA / UK immediately Biden got the presidency.
OBVIOUSLY predictable, and PREDICTED right here on Skwawkbox.org
Biden, cheered on by those who should know better is doing from the START of his Presidency to the very end, EXACTLY as the Bushes, Clinton and Obama did. Harris will be the same status quo merchant for the insatiable military industrial complex. FOLLOW THE MONEY 🩸🩸🩸
Tragedy is the long suffering will continue to suffer
The UK/USA will go nuts if this goes through. I hope The Hague has it’s own missile defense system!
Not an American designed one!
I think they ought to fight to have our PM(s) arrested!
The Yanks have a law that allows them to invade the Hague if one of theirs is arrested
Problem is two of theirs Netanyahu and Gallant are looking odds on to be lifted
On another matter Murdoch has gone to court to protect No1 sons inheritance against the other siblings
Pray he wins Lachlan is as thick as pig shit and will take the empire down in record time
The one with the biggest bollocks is Elspeth
Well done South Africa.
Wish there was a public petition we could all sign to support this.
Time those US & UK politicians who have been exposed for what they are really like to be brought to account.
Solidarity With South Africa.
Solidarity With Palestine.