The trouble with Mogoeng’s stance on Israel, and why SA must back Palestine

major general along with organisations comprising ex-military security experts and, most importantly, Palestinians themselves.

In the midst of international isolation, the State of Israel was one of the few Western nations that maintained a strategic partnership with apartheid SA. “Have we cut diplomatic ties with our colonisers? Have we disinvested from our former colonisers and those responsible for untold suffering in SA and Africa? Did Israel take away our land or the land of Africa, did Israel take our mineral wealth?

When taken on its own terms, this stance is particularly unsettling. At best it seems to misunderstand what Israel is being condemned for; and at worst, it amounts toIt would seem obvious that if a former coloniser, say the Netherlands, was currently in the process of occupying the land of another people, in violation of international law, and had set up a system of discriminatory and punitive laws, that it should rightly be condemned.

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