Hating the Middle Eastern country has never garnered the ANC votes or won it any international favour
There is something foul about SA’s foreign policy. It stands continuously with the anti-Western bloc of dictators, fascists and human rights abusers. It has a horrendous track record of voting at the UN general assembly and the UN human rights council that is diametrically opposite to post-apartheid’s values of freedom and nondiscrimination.
There is but one country at which SA directs all its opprobrium and judgment. It is the most undeserving country of SA’s hostility, but so targeted because the governing party irrationally believes this will win votes locally and power internationally.The ANC is dangerously wrong on both accounts: hating Israel has never garnered it votes in any election, and targeting Israel internationally only isolates SA itself.
On the issue of cutting ties with Israel and allowing the antisemitic BDS fringe movement to capture foreign policy, Sisulu and the ANC should proceed with extreme caution. SA is focused on rebuilding its standing in the international community and to be taken seriously on international affairs.
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