The Question of the Genocidal Conduct
THE AD HOMINEM
First of all, an ad-hominem argument I want to discuss early so that we can ignore it hereafter because ad-hominem arguments are fallacies for a reason. What usually comes into my mind is the fact that Ramaphosa had good reason to perhaps not bother with transnational conflicts not even tangentially relevant to a country like his. South Africa does not play a major role in any international alliance, so that there is no reason to push itself into the limelight. If he wanted to solve conflicts, he should sweep in front of his own doorstep, first of all. General poverty¹ frequently triggers violence on the streets, in the shape of robberies and thievery, the police cannot get hold of it². When his country passed the lawsuit, he announced it on his LinkedIn profile too, and the comments, particularly the top comment, spoke for themselves³. Those are not (just) boeren who fear to become targets of POC⁴, those are POC who fear that they could be begotten by their peers. So, in my opinion, as a side argument, Ramaphosa had enough conflicts to care about at the homefront, there is no need to move the points of interest abroad. One argument on why he does that are elections: Recently, he has announced that the general election will be held on May 09, 2024⁵, so this could be part of his re-election campaign, to stylise himself as a civil-rights activist in the fashion of Nelson Mandela, who is now placed up front with the quote that " our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians"⁶. The second part of the quote--that the same applied to Timor Leste--is of course crapped out because those people don't care about Timor Leste, the fewest could even tell where the country is even located⁷. But the more concerning, hypocritical point is that today's ANC is audacious enough to still call itself the party of Mandela, a misnomer comparable to the Trump GOP calling itself "the party of Lincoln"⁸. Also, if Nelson Mandela were still alive today, I think that while he were seriously concerned about the Palestinians' well-being, for which everyone had a reason, I think he were firstly more concerned about his own people, which made sense. Back in 1997, things looked brighter for South Africa. Nowadays, they are back at zero. Coming back to the speech that is so often cited (without context or source, to my great destitution), it should also be noted that he held then-Israeli president Yitzak Rabin in high regard for his contributions to the Oslo Agreements. For context: Rabin was later murdered by Zionists for those same contributions⁹. I cannot tell in what way this is relevant, but I thought that those who didn't know should know.