SA accepted the presidency of the UN Security Council for October. This offered a unique opportunity for the country to lead the international arena with courage, boldness and moral clarity. Sadly, SA squandered the moment at the UN Security Council open debate on the situation in the Middle East.
Pandor opened her speech by insisting that “the question of peace in the Middle East will not be resolved unless the question of Palestine is resolved”. This is a groundless statement. One need merely consider some of the recent conflicts in the theatre of the Middle East:2016 West Iran clashesNone of these terrible conflicts has had anything to do with the “question of Palestine”, nor was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remotely in the minds of the perpetrators or their victims.
SA places all blame, responsibility and burden onto Israel for the failure to achieve peace with the Palestinians. The minister’s speech abdicated all agency and moral duty on the part of the Palestinians and abandoned history and context to promote a partisan position. Some have called this soft attitude towards the Palestinians the “bigotry of low expectations”. SA seems blind to all Palestinian acts of violence, terror and war against Israeli civilians and denies context to the situation.
One is unsure what Pandor means by the closing of schools, but presumably she is not referring to schools closing in Israel when rockets are fired from Gaza, terrorising children and families. She also presumably is not referring to Israeli civilians killed by Palestinian terror, but only to tragic incidents when Palestinian civilians mingled with militants are inevitably wounded or killed through Israel’s response to Palestinian acts of aggression.
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