Israel seethes after genocide hearing: ‘One of history’s greatest displays of hypocrisy’

Israeli officials reacted with rage and indignation to South Africa’s presentation of its accusations of genocide against Jerusalem at the International Court of Justice Thursday, with the Foreign Ministry calling the case “one of the greatest shows of hypocrisy in history.” Spokesman Lior Haiat charged in a post on X that Pretoria was “functioning as the legal arm of the Hamas terrorist organization” and “completely ignored the fact that Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, murdered, executed, massacred, raped and abducted Israeli citizens, simply because they were Israelis, in an attempt to...