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The South African government to cut diplomatic ties with Israel

danmand

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The South African government is intending to cut diplomatic ties with Israel in protest of its treatment of the Palestinian people, the country’s Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor announced yesterday.

Pandor informed parliamentarians of the government’s resolution during a ten-hour joint debate on South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) that he delivered last week.

“The majority party has agreed, that government must cut diplomatic ties with Israel, given the absence of genuine initiatives by Israel to secure lasting peace and a viable two-state solution that includes full freedom and democracy for the Palestinian people,” she said.

The comments were made in response to opposition leader Kenneth Meshoe, who had argued that it was disappointing that national and provincial authorities in South Africa had refused help from Israeli companies to address the country’s current water crisis.

However, the proposal was applauded by parliamentarians and Pandor, who is expected to be appointed vice president in Ramaphosa’s new Cabinet, was given a standing ovation as she left the podium.

The government’s decision was further confirmed on the South African Parliament’s official Twitter account.


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#Pandor: The majority party has resolved that government must cut diplomatic ties with Israel #SONADebate

12:32 PM - Feb 19, 2018

South Africa has been a staunch ally of the Palestinian struggle and regularly spoken out against the atrocities committed by the Israeli government.

Last month, the South African representative to the UN told the Human Rights Council that Israel is the “only state in the world that can be described as an apartheid state”, just days after the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party called for government ministers to strengthen the country’s visa restrictions with Israel.

Last year, the government also resolved to downgrade the South African Embassy in Israel to a liaison office, and cautioned Tel Aviv for blacklisting supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which included prominent figures of the ANC.

The BDS South Africa campaign has witnessed significant support from the nation’s public, with universities and churches backing a cultural and economic boycott of Israel affiliated organisations.
 

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A government that was close to Zimbabwe's Mugabe and every other corrupt African dictatorship
 

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Yup you and those who think like you will excuse every country in the world except for Israel.
That's why Franfooter is a antisemite Jew hater. Very simple.
In Syria at least 400 thousand have been killed, you think S. Africa cut ties with them? Did they cut ties with Iran?
 

Frankfooter

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Yup you and those who think like you will excuse every country in the world except for Israel.
Nope, I'm against all apartheid countries.
Only so far that's just Israel.

That's why Franfooter is a antisemite Jew hater. Very simple.
In Syria at least 400 thousand have been killed, you think S. Africa cut ties with them? Did they cut ties with Iran?
Syria is pretty fucked, I agree.
So which side is the morally correct side in that one?
Who do you pick?
 

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Is that the government of Jacob Zuma?

For a guy who criticized Israel for having a corrupt PM to applaud the decisions of a massively corrupt government is laughable (but not the slightest bit surprising).
 

danmand

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A government that was close to Zimbabwe's Mugabe and every other corrupt African dictatorship
Not the government that Israel financed and supported during Apartheid, eh Klerky?

While you're on your high horse, think back to the times America lectured on human rights whilst allowing the degradation of much of their own non-White citizens to go unchecked.
 

basketcase

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No it is not. And the South Africans knows a thing or two about Apartheid.
Right. Zuma's been out of power for what, a week? And the government officially lauded Zuma even after his removal.

It is also laughable that the country is accusing others of racism while at the same time advancing a bill targeting white farmers for land appropriations.
 

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Right. Zuma's been out of power for what, a week? And the government officially lauded Zuma even after his removal.

It is also laughable that the country is accusing others of racism while at the same time advancing a bill targeting white farmers for land appropriations.
Canada has done its Truth and Reconciliation work and is still negotiating treaties with Native groups.
Colonization and apartheid screwed South Africa over.
But I'm not surprised you'd think that farmers who took or colonized land during apartheid South Africa should get to keep it, or that once those whose land was stolen got into power they might like said land back.
"We will accelerate our land redistribution program not only to redress a grave historical injustice, but also to bring more producers into the agricultural sector and to make more land available for cultivation.
"This approach will include the expropriation of land without compensation," he added.

"We are determined that expropriation without compensation should be implemented in a way that increases agricultural production, improves food security and ensure that land is returned to those from who it was taken under colonialism and apartheid."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/16/africa/south-africa-politics-intl/index.html

Its a pretty ugly route, but its not like apartheid was fair.
And its quite hypocritical that you back Israeli colonization and land theft by the state yet think the state in South Africa doesn't have the right to undo colonization and land theft.
Or is this all because South Africa identified Israel as the only apartheid state in the world.
 

danmand

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Right. Zuma's been out of power for what, a week? And the government officially lauded Zuma even after his removal.

It is also laughable that the country is accusing others of racism while at the same time advancing a bill targeting white farmers for land appropriations.
To you any critique of Israeli policy is laughable. But there is an option to see the proposed confiscation of white farmers land as being a return of stolen property to the original owners' descendants, in effect REVERSING the effects of racism and Apartheid.

While fair to the displaced black population, the results of a land distribution may very well be negative for the economy, which is why the it has not yet happened. Politically, it was always a matter of time.
 
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