South African Parliament Votes to Close Down Israeli Embassy

The post apartheid regime in South Africa is as racist as its predecessor.

For Israel, the news from South Africa is seldom good. The ruling African National Congress never misses an opportunity to slam the Jewish state. Hamas members are welcome at ANC meetings. The BDS movement is flourishing. Diplomatic relations with the Jewish state have been downgraded since mid-2018, when South Africa’s last ambassador to Israel returned to Pretoria.

Apartheid in Israel? Palestinian Arabs are members of the Knesset, who serve on the Supreme Court, who are senior members of the diplomatic corps, and who serve, if they wish, in the IDF, some of them becoming high-ranking officers. There is no apartheid in Israel.

As for the “occupation of Palestinian territory,” There is no occupation in Gaza; no Israelis have been in Gaza since 2005. In the West Bank, Israel does not “occupy” Palestinian land. The West Bank – the name given by the Jordanians to those parts of Judea and Samaria they occupied from 1948 to 1967 — was assigned, according to the Mandate for Palestine, to be part of the territory included in the future Jewish National Home. One suspects that Desmond Tutu has never read the Mandate for Palestine, much less looked at its maps.

Desmond Tutu might also inform himself about Areas A, B, and C, in the West Bank. It is only in Area C that Israel has full control. The Palestinians who live in Area A have complete control over their lives; those in Area B have almost complete control over their lives, except in security matters where Israel and the Palestinians share authority. Only in Area C does Israel exercise complete control. 90% of the Palestinians in the West Bank – 2.8 out of a total of 3 million– live in Areas A and B. That, too, is something Tutu is unlikely to comprehend.

There is much more one could say about Desmond Tutu’s miscomprehension of Israel’s rights, including its right, under U.N. Resolution 242, to “secure and recognized boundaries,” which many believe entitle it to hold onto, at the very least, the Judean Heights and the Jordan Valley, as well as the Golan. But his mind is made up. Israelis are “white” (forget about the dark-skinned Indian, Ethiopian, and Arab Jews) and “Palestinians” are brown. Case, apparently, c

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South African Parliament Votes to Close Down Israeli Embassy in Pretoria

By Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, November 22, 2023:

South Africa’s parliament on Tuesday voted decisively in favor of the closure of the Israeli Embassy in Pretoria, one day after the Jewish state recalled its own envoy back to Jerusalem for consultations amid growing hostility from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and left-wing parties over the ongoing war in Gaza.

A motion submitted by the far left Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) was backed by the ANC, passing with 248 votes in favor to 91 against. Members of the centrist Democratic Alliance (DA) largely voted against the motion. After its passage, several members of parliament, many of them bedecked in Palestinian flags and keffiyeh scarves, chanted the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free” — widely interpreted as a call for Israel’s elimination as a sovereign state.

The parliamentary vote coincided with a virtual meeting of the BRICS bloc of states — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — on the conflict in Gaza triggered by the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel that was hosted by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Slamming Israel for actions that were “tantamount to genocide,” Ramaphosa declared that the “root cause of this conflict is the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory by Israel.”

“The actions by Israel are in clear violation of international law, including the UN Charter and the Geneva Convention read together with its protocols. Let this meeting stand as a clarion call for us to combine our efforts and strengthen our actions to end this historical injustice,” Ramaphosa told the meeting, which included delegations from new BRICS member states Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. UN Secretary-General António Guterres was also in attendance.

Ramaphosa’s speech followed last week’s decision by South Africa to refer what it called Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza to the International Criminal Court for an investigation, with its cabinet calling on the ICC on Monday to issue an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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From a Remote Location

5 months ago

This is a taste of what will happen if, G-d forbid, whites in America become the minority as is more and more likely to happen thanks to abortion, unsustainably low birth rates, and the mass invasion of illegals pushed by Democrats (with their skyhigh birth rates).

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Stephen Honig

5 months ago

This is after Israel sends people and supplies to Africa to help them.

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turtlebrat

5 months ago

Reply to  Stephen Honig

same thing as was done in USA when Jews helped the civil rights movement by thankless people who should never have been helped

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Ronald Nuxon

5 months ago

Affirming that Israel isn’t the racist, apartheid country, as incessantly labeled by its haters, won’t change their minds. In this age, truth and facts are trumped by narrative. Formulate a narrative, order the activist/acolytes to dispense it, rinse and repeat.

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jim

5 months ago

If we support Israel does that indicate that we cease call funding to the crooks in South Africa ?

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Harry Brennan

5 months ago

Reply to  jim

No, it indicates that you disgustingly support mass murdering war criminals who commit genocide by blowing to bits thousands of people in Gaza.

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George

5 months ago

Reply to  Harry Brennan

Harry Brennan supports baking Jewish babies in ovens while raping their mothers in the kitchen, like Hamas did last month.

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Cassandra

5 months ago

ANC funded by the Soviets and the present Russians.

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Cassandra

5 months ago

“Harry Brennan” the troll ( below) who downvotes everyone needs to be removed or blocked or whatever. I am sick of having to go down the comments, upvoting people this moron keeps downvoting and then spews out his Nazism . This makes the comments section a place to avoid.

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