The unabashed Western support for Israel’s genocidal rampage in Gaza has exposed the “double standards of the West with regard to human rights and international law”, says Japanese scholar in an article for Al Jazeera.

South Africa’s lawsuit in the International Court of Justice alleging Israel committing genocide will either be remembered as the first step towards finally holding a rogue state accountable for repeated, longstanding violations of international law; or as the last, dying breath of a dysfunctional, Western-led international system, according to Saul J Takahashi.

Thus, the hypocrisy of Western governments (and the Western political elite as a whole) has finally brought the so-called “rules-based world order” they purport to lead to the point of no return.

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