Yaakov Amidror, the former national security adviser, told
an Israel Project conference that “relations with South Africa are not that
important to Israel so, if they want their ambassador back, they are most
welcome.”
This undiplomatic statement was made after South Africa
pulled its ambassador out of Israel following the Hamas promoted violence.
Having met the ambassador, I can attest that Amidror is
right. I have never met such an unpleasant and provocative ambassador as Sisa
Mgombane who came to Israel with a heinous anti-Israel stance and began to off
load his “Israel is a racist apartheid state’ venom on the two shocked
guests I brought to him on a courtesy visit.
As we left the meeting my guests, two black South African
pastors, embarrassingly apologized to me for their ambassador. They happened to
view Israel completely differently.
The problem in South Africa is that the ANC has veered
desperately away from the path of Nelson Mandela. Now they have the reins of
power, they wield them with a radical ideology. Everything is black or white, and
what they perceive as white has no legitimacy.
Currently in South Africa, Afrikaans farmers are being
threatened, tortured, and brutally murdered for being white. They are either
driven from their farms and out of the country, or they live in very real fear.
The recent murder of an elderly white couple has triggered a furious debate
about the growing crimes against white land owners. The woman was strangled with
a wire cord, and the intruders slit her husband’s throat. There were six such
murders within 3 days of this incident. The perpetrators of many of these
brutal murders go unpunished.
South Africa voted to seize the land of white farmers
without paying them compensation. This was a step that led Zimbabwe to economic
ruin under Mugabe. The ANC Government seems keen for South Africa to follow in Zimbabwe’s
failed path. And they pick on Israel for their scorn. They really have strayed
too far from the path of Mandela.
In 2015, Leila Khaled was invited to South Africa by BDS to
help them in their fundraising efforts. When you need a Palestinian terrorist and
convicted plane hijacker to raise money you know you have a troublesome organization,
Yet this did not stop the ANC South African Government, that walks in lockstep
with BDS, to officially welcome Khaled as a hero.
Amidror is right. There is little economic or political will
in South Africa to reach out to Israel, an Israel that extended its hand to
help them with their drought and lack of clean water, a hand that was rejected.
An Israel that can improve their quality of life with our technology and
science. Apparently, they don’t want to improve their people’s future with
Israel’s help and innovation.
They won’t change until someone tells them that their simple
notion that the world turns on black is
good and white is bad, and black is right and white is wrong. This sadly
misplaced nonsense positions Palestinian Arabs as black and therefore right,
and Israel as white and therefore always in the wrong.
South Africa used to call itself the Rainbow Nation. Not
anymore. If the South African government, a government that is persecuting
white farmers, want to see a Rainbow Nation north of Cape Town it has to search
up the immense dark continent of Africa, across the vast north African zone of
conflict and poverty, and through the Muslim Middle East until it reaches the
only spot, a tiny spot, that can truly be called the Rainbow Nation. The State
of Israel.
Israel has welcomed and absorbed unwanted Jews of all color
and culture from the Muslim world, from Asia, South America, Russia, even black
Jews from war torn Ethiopia. All are fully integrated Israeli citizens. Among
Israeli citizens are Christians, Muslims, Druze, Bedouin, Bahai, Aramean,
people of all color and faith. Israel is the only country in the Middle East
where the Christian population has grown. Israel is not an apartheid state. It
is a diverse Rainbow Nation. Compare that to the Muslim states in the Middle
East. Show me one without a dwindling Christianity. Show me one with a working,
thriving Jewish community, if they have any Jews at all? Yet South Africa calls
Israel an apartheid state!So I totally reject the myopic prattle of BDS-supporting ANC South Africa and their nonsensical notion of Israel as an apartheid state. So while the South African government practices a reverse apartheid policy against their own minority white farmers, if the ANC really want to see where genuine apartheid is being practiced against the Palestinian Arabs they so passionate support, let them look no further than Jordan.
In Jordan, over a million Arabs, who call themselves Palestinian, still live in refugee camps after 70 years into their fifth generation, stateless, deprived of higher education and government jobs. This is real apartheid but ANC has nothing to say about that. No Jordan Apartheid Week on South African campuses. Hypocrites!
Or the biggest shock of all. Palestinians living in refugee
camps under the full civil and security administration of the Palestinian
Authority! BDS-loving ANC are completely silent about this apartheid abuse of
Palestinians by Palestinians. Instead, they invent a non-existent apartheid screed
against the Jewish state.
There is a psychological asymmetry between South Africa and
Turkey. Under Erdogan’s rule, Turkey suppresses their own people, are killing
the Kurds, support Hamas while condemning Israel for Hamas committed crimes, as the ANC suppresses their white farmers, support Hamas, and condemn Israel
for anything and everything. This is the similarity between ANC and a Turkey guilty of the genocide against Armenian Christians.
Black Christian ANC members are so color sensitive in persuading
us that Arabs are black like them, and therefore in need of their support and
protection. They offer them a special dispensation in the killing of "whites" (in our case, Israelis) in an effort to drive them off their land (in our case, the Land of Israel). But, let them consider this.
The ANC South African
government shamefully turns a blind eye to the butchery of white South African
farmers at home while also turning the other blind eye to the slaughter and
slavery of fellow Christian Africans at the hands of Arab Islamic terrorists,
some, like Erdogan, of the Muslim Brotherhood persuasion.
In Africa, Arab Muslims today still force black African Christians
into slavery as they have been doing for centuries. Yet the black South African
Christian ANC ignores the plight of their fellow African Christians and
compliment Arab Palestinians by falsely calling them black. Clearly this is an uneducated nonsense used
only to portray Israel as being white as they heap more false charges against the
Jewish state in support of the terror tactics of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, just
like Turkey.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, BDS, Leila Khaled, Fatah. This is the company that the South African government prefers to keep.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, BDS, Leila Khaled, Fatah. This is the company that the South African government prefers to keep.
Somebody needs to get an education. Tell the South African government it's not all black and white, as they mistakenly make it out to be.
Barry
Shaw is the author of ‘Fighting Hamas, BDS, and Anti-Semitism’ and ‘BDS
for IDIOTS.’ He is also the Senior
Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
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