Members of South Africa’s parliament are expected to debate a motion to cut diplomatic ties with Israel as the war on Gaza continues.
South Africa withdrew its ambassador from Israel five years ago due to what it said were human rights violations.
But voters remain divided on the conflict.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports.
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God bless Israel 🇮🇱 ❤
Mandela would be proud ❤
Honestly the Arab countries are the most useless in this and they are complicit in Israel killing innocent people
As a ugandan I speak for my 1000 fellows we are gor Palestine, Israel must be expelled from Africa
MOROCCO shame on the king…close zionist embassy in Rabat
A group of terrible humans ran around the neighbourhood. One of them was raping a child. Immediately the other guys were outraged. They “discussed” cutting ties and if they should help the child. Unfortunately there were problems and all they did was discussing while staying best friend with the rapist and supporting him.
This is you. This is your story. The child is called Palestine. You, all of you, are guilty if you continue buying or selling stuff with Israel and not blocking them 100%. But even the Arab brothers and sisters cant stop sending oil to Israel. MONEY $$$$.
And so the child gets raped over and over again until it dies.
I have Jewish blood and I would physically set an end to this if any of these people would cross my way. I buy nothing from Israhell and they have no right whatsoever because they are terrorists.
The DA opposition supports Israel in South Africa.
Luckily DA hasn’t been winning any elections after 94. Next year will be 30 yrs without apartheid.
It’s only the stupid LOW IQ Christians that stand with Israel here in South Africa. Anyone with half a brain would be disgusted at the terrorist zionist regime calling themselves israel.
We stand with Palestine free Palestine from genocide again see the tTHRUTH no need to support Zionists criminals murderer baby killer yes
Because Isreal is an Oppressive Apartheid Regime. Not a state
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Sometimes i can’t understand these African’s,they go all out for Palestine and but support Russia in the foolishness and astrocties in Ukraine! Nothing is said about the hostages we need a more balanced on the world stage!
Our love ❤ for South Africa.
Shame for Israel USA Saudi and UAE….
Taking hostages is normal they have children fighters in Africa like in Gaza. Its so sad they cant get kids outa warzones because your morality sees it as local morality.
ZIONISM is worse than APARTHEID…fox..al Jazeera double stander…double face…same as cnn..fox news…bbc…france24…they want to collect as many viewer’s..as possible..
Yes, we are taking sides. We are siding with the oppressed, we are studying with the occupied. We are siding with the children of Gaza. We will have betrayed our freedom [fighters] by choosing to abandon those who not only acknowledged our right to be free but those who are our allies. We identify with struggle for palestine because it was (and still is) similar to the struggle we know.
Cut ties and expel the Ambassador for Israel
black jews (cowards) Run South Africa.
The apartheid country south Africa just like you
Imagine being friends with a european colonial imposter apartheid abomination inflicting ethnic cleansing, brutal occupation and land theft on indiginous Arabs…
God will judge soon 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇿🇦🇿🇦
synagogue of satan devil kabala devil, you should be terrified. REPENT YOU MISGUIDED FOOL. REPENT I SAY.
Anti zionist Anti war Anti occupation Anti corporate oligarchy ✊️ pick one ! The system want the entire planet to be facist communist like Rothschilds Israel. The world had peace until zionism was created in this Middle East
Lack of understanding
SA…. ANC goverment doesn’t help with the true story in Gaza. Wait till Hamas is finish and then let the Gazans speak for themselves.They will be able to speak freely in live freely in their land,without terrorist groups stealing their money and then live better lifes. SA is busy killing itself with cutting ties with the West,because of the ANC and all people who are dragging the country downwords. Malema may be the first too slide to the bottom and then realize ….eish I can’t get out!Remember your floating “pads”.Digwagwa di tla go ja!😂
Isn’t South Africa infamous for committing apartheid? All these countries cutting ties are literally drug cartel sanctuaries and hypocrites…
Christians in this country support Isreal but do they support christians in Palastine? Christians are not zionists..
Go ahead, cut the ties with Israel. This is what south Africans want, this is standing on the right side of history with the whole global majority.
Flip Israel
Dan Marcelo the piggy scoundrel instigated violence on this day.
Bafana Modise speaking up for an apartheid country like Israel is sickening. He is just like the Bafana football team – Pathetic.
the entire world governments are in cahoots to keep every citizens in slavery, but as individuals we can control what we can consume so boycott every american and european products, do not participate with your money to fund these genocides and cruelty against hapless children women and men in the poorer countries by these western warmongers
@00:58 The Zionist Israeli PR machine is very well established if they have ambassadors camped in countries around the world. If Palestinians had that kind of PR machine, they would not be where they are now. It’s an unfair fight in the media and on land.
We dont care about south africa. you dont even have clean water
Why is there in South Africa a Zionist organization? Why this is terrible
Any human stands with palenstine, any monster stands with Israel
What’s the logic behind Two state solution??? How you allow occupiers a State??????
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Viva South Africa 👍
Palestine Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
There will be no winners in this war. You can expel all the diplomats you want. Religion is the cause.
I stand with palestane
Wait a minute… What about the christian Palestinians in Gaza, West Bank, Jerusalem, Hebron, and all over who have been subjected to humiliation and beaten up by Zionists – also, those who have also been killed by the IDF? The oldest Greek Orthodox Church in Palestine was bombed, resulting in 18 Christian deaths? How can that man say christians in South Africa stand with Israel when Israel has murdered Christian in Palestine, too? And not just in this massacre. I swear, Zionist money will make some people even turn on their own mothers…
So, Christians standing with Israel support the building of the 3rd temple and the Jewish Messiah when the Bible is clear that Jesus is the messiah? The Bible says the third temple is an omen for evil, i.e., the antichrist? Have all Christians exchanged their bibles for Zionist dollars or what?
South’s Africans no wat genocide is more than the world
Well said Haamedah Rawat
That black Christian man is the true definition of brain washing. U talk Christianity wen Palestinians who r passing thru wat the other South Africans went thru except u are dying and u r still worshiping the Jewish God who allows them to kill the amaleks. U r d**b coz SAS stand with the Palestinians coz they no wat t means and the Ukraine Russia issue is propaganda by the west to contain Russia by causing an unending war
Free Palestine
Jimmy Dore-Redacted what does Gaza have? RT International
Let them hasten the cutting of ties with Israel. Who really cares?
Ramaphosa is enslaved by powerful anti-israel propagandists and Arab nations. Nonsense.
Cut all ties
“Apartheid in the Holy Land
(The late Archbishop) Desmond Tutu, Sun 28 Apr 2002
In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil. I have continued to feel strongly with the Jews. I am patron of a Holocaust centre in South Africa. I believe Israel has a right to secure borders.
What is not so understandable, not justified, is what it did to another people to guarantee its existence. I’ve been very deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about.
On one of my visits to the Holy Land I drove to a church with the Anglican bishop in Jerusalem. I could hear tears in his voice as he pointed to Jewish settlements. I thought of the desire of Israelis for security. But what of the Palestinians who have lost their land and homes?
I have experienced Palestinians pointing to what were their homes, now occupied by Jewish Israelis. I was walking with Canon Naim Ateek (the head of the Sabeel Ecumenical Centre) in Jerusalem. He pointed and said: “Our home was over there. We were driven out of our home; it is now occupied by Israeli Jews.”
My heart aches. I say why are our memories so short. Have our Jewish sisters and brothers forgotten their humiliation? Have they forgotten the collective punishment, the home demolitions, in their own history so soon? Have they turned their backs on their profound and noble religious traditions? Have they forgotten that God cares deeply about the downtrodden?
Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won’t let ambulances reach the injured.
The military action of recent days, I predict with certainty, will not provide the security and peace Israelis want; it will only intensify the hatred.
Israel has three options: revert to the previous stalemated situation; exterminate all Palestinians; or – I hope – to strive for peace based on justice, based on withdrawal from all the occupied territories, and the establishment of a viable Palestinian state on those territories side by side with Israel, both with secure borders.
We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land?
My brother Naim Ateek has said what we used to say: “I am not pro- this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti- injustice, anti-oppression.”
But you know as well as I do that, somehow, the Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticise it is to be immediately dubbed anti-semitic, as if the Palestinians were not semitic. I am not even anti-white, despite the madness of that group. And how did it come about that Israel was collaborating with the apartheid government on security measures?
People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful – very powerful. Well, so what? For goodness sake, this is God’s world! We live in a moral universe. The apartheid government was very powerful, but today it no longer exists. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet, Milosevic, and Idi Amin were all powerful, but in the end they bit the dust.
Injustice and oppression will never prevail. Those who are powerful have to remember the litmus test that God gives to the powerful: what is your treatment of the poor, the hungry, the voiceless? And on the basis of that, God passes judgment.
We should put out a clarion call to the government of the people of Israel, to the Palestinian people and say: peace is possible, peace based on justice is possible. We will do all we can to assist you to achieve this peace, because it is God’s dream, and you will be able to live amicably together as sisters and brothers.
Desmond Tutu was the former Archbishop of Cape Town and chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This address was given at a conference on Ending the Occupation held in Boston, Massachusetts, in early April 2002. A longer version appeared in the Church Times.”
No Christian South African can ever make the blatantly false statement that “all South African Christians stand with Isreal”… siestog! You should be ashamed of yourselves knowing our history!
Israel Apartheid State.
Please Love and stand with humanity for freedom of Palestine 🇦🇪🇦🇪
How can Africans support apartheid Israel ?😢
We are GOD TERRITORY YOU CANT UPROOT US . WITH GOD WE ARE NOT DEAFETED🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱WHEN GOD IS ON OUR SIDE NO MAN IS AGAINST US. OURS IS PRAYERS REST GOD DEAL WITH IT
It’s so easy to use someone else’s war for political reasons. The ANC government is trying to move the focus away from themselves. What about the genocide that is taking place in South Africa. Innocent people are slaughtered on a daily basis, yet they have a lot to say about others. Start solving your own problems. This move will not win you the 2024 elections
1. We need to do more
“All of us need to do more in supporting the struggle of the people of Palestine for self-determination.” (1997)
2. Israeli government is a terrorist state
“If one has to refer to any of the parties as a terrorist state, one might refer to the Israeli government, because they are the people who are slaughtering defenseless and innocent Arabs in the occupied [Palestinian] territories, and we don’t regard that as acceptable.” (1990)
3. Freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians
“The United Nations took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system…but we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” (1997)
4. Similar fight between the South African struggle and the PLO
“I sincerely believe that there are many similarities between our struggle and that of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).” (1990)
5. Proud to fight for the freedom of Palestine
“We are proud as a government, and as the overwhelming majority of South Africans to be part of an international consensus taking root that the time has come to resolve the problems of Palestine.” (1997)
6. We would be less human if we did not fight for the freedom of Palestine
“The temptation in our situation is to speak in muffled tones about an issue such as the right of the people of Palestine…we can easily be enticed to read reconciliation and fairness as meaning parity between justice and injustice. Having achieved our own freedom, we can fall into the trap of washing our hands of difficulties that others faces…yet we would be less than human if we did so…it behoves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice…” (1997)
7. Palestinians have long supported South Africa’s fight against apartheid
“One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies…our attitude towards any country is determined by the attitude of that country towards our struggle…[Palestine’s] Yasser Arafat…supports our struggle to the hilt…They [Palestine, Libya and Cuba] do not only support it [our struggle against Apartheid] in rhetoric, they [the Palestinians, Libyans and Cubans] are placing resources at our disposal for us to win the struggle.” (1990)
8. The history of South Africa and Palestine are connected
“The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways.” (1999)
9. Feeling of being home amongst Palestinians
“I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots [the Palestinians].” (1999)
10. To support Palestine is to support human rights
“We have assembled once again…as humanists to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine.” (1997)
11. Comrade in arms
“Our stand is [Palestine’s] Arafat is a comrade in arms and we treat him as such.” (1990)
12. Israeli government is denying basic human rights
“We identify with them [the Palestinians] because we do not believe it is right for the Israeli government to suppress basic human rights [of the Palestinians.” (1990)
13. We must not condemn Yasser Arafat
“One of the problems we are facing in the world today are people who do not look at problems objectively but from the point of view of their own interests. One of the best examples of this is to think that because [Palestinian leader, Yasser] Arafat is conducting a struggle against the State of Israel that we must therefore condemn him. We can’t do that. It is just not possible for any organisation or individual of integrity to do anything of the sort.” (1990)
14. The attitude of the Israeli government is unacceptable
“The belligerent attitude which is adopted by the Israeli government is to us unacceptable.” (1990
15. We are a humanity as one with Palestinians
“In extending our hands across the miles to the people of Palestine, we do so in the full knowledge that we are part of a humanity that is at one.” (1997)
~ Nelson Mandela, terrorist of freedom and liberation
some of the leaders seem to have forgotten that they had to fight for their freedom
South Africa is a failed state the Irony is that the blacks in south africa are worse than anyone they kill their fellow blacks just like the arabs killed 15 million blacks during their genocide of blacks every generation the blood of those killed have comes back to hunt them now the iSRAELIS are dealing with the arabs
How did the injured party become the villain in this, Hamas killed innocent people and took hostages and yet people support them?
Bravo continu comme ça❤❤❤
Haiii….so what if you cut off ties with Isrsal….you literally nothing and being controlled by evil….nxe nxe
Israel is not in breach of international law. Israel is not committing war crimes. Take me on. Please. Anybody.
We South Africans stand with Palestine and are not cowards like the west
Heck yeah
Kick the DA out of Parlemaint now!
Bullshit Bafan Modise is not speaking for Christians he speak for satanist zionist fake churches, only fake Christians stand with Israel.
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Sharia law would be good for them
News reporter, Antony Loewenstein said:
Israel Is Testing New Weapons on Gaza as Arms Dealers Profit from Gaza War.
Said Antony Loewenstein: Israel Is Testing New Weapons on Gaza as a Laboratory”.
* I totally agree with him.
As if a country with $7000 per capita GDP matters . It is laughable
Not all christian
Will RAMAPHOSA also ‘Back ’the closure of the Iranian, Afghani, Syrian, Iraqi, Russian, Chinese etc. etc. embacies and report them to the ICC-if not you are just hypocrites who supports HAMAS and all that goes with IT! with a crime rate the highest on earth-75 to85 murders,125 to 135 rapes, sweeping Zenaphobia, 400 series crimes Mega corruption all sorts, Ramaphosa must recuse himself as PUPPET president and the ICC must bring HIM to Court!
Mega Egoistic Hypocrite can’t fix the Pit Toilette problems in South Africa but his Arrogance makes him strut around as the Saviour of the Mother Earth!
Zionists are lacking same basic values that human beings have.
They are fighting against the values declared equivocally by the community of nations in the UN.
They want to destroy the Human civilisation.
EVERY EACH DEMONSTRATION AROUND THE WORLD PRO PALESTINE END UP IN VIOLENCE AND RIOT. WATCH THE RALLY IN WASHINGTON DC ALL SUPPORTERS FOR ISRAEL NOT ONE SINGLE ATTACK. A DEMONSTRATION THST GATHER AT LEAST 200,000 PEOPLE NOT A SINGLE PROBLEM. IN SOUTH AFRICA DOING DEMONSTRATION FOR A PROBLEM IT DOESNT BELONG TO THE COUNTRY WHERE FEW 10 PEOPLE GSTHET MAKE A HUGE PROBLEM.. SEE WHAT ARE THE MESSAGE THAT HAMAS IS GIVING TO THE WORLD..?
WAR HATE AND FIGHT
THATS WHST HAMAS WANT TO ENTER INTO THE PEOPLE’S BRAIN AND THEY ARE ABSORBING THAT POISON… HERE U HAVE!
You are a simple liar.
Pro-Palestinian mass-demonstrations are going on, on the Globe everywhere. Many millions of people are taking part.
Also in the UN, delegates of every nations express the solidarity against zionists. The will of Humanity must be accepted!
Pro-Palestine demonstrations (in spite of the huge number of participants) are peaceful. Only the zionist anti-demonstrators and the police used violence sometimes.
EXCUSE ME.. WHAT IS SOUTH AFRICA CONTRIBUTION TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM..??
ARE YOU TAKEN PALESTINIANS AS REFUGEES WAR..??.. IF IS REALLY YOUR CONCERN WHY YOU DONT TAKE A MILLION OF THEM AND GIVE THEM HOME, EDUCATION, HEALTH INSURANCE, FOOD, CITIZENSHIP AND SUBSIDY..??
IS SOUTH AFRICA READY FOR IT..??.. DO IT!.. TAKE THAT PEOPLE TO YOUR COUNTRY AND STOP THE PROBLEM 😂
People of South-Africa is the part of Humanity. We share common Human values that zionists deny.
Their experienced history speaks forever against zionism.
Your zionist brain is unable to recognise that Palestinians have their own land. They don’t want to be refugees in S. Afrika or in other countries. They want to live in their homeland.
Given that Israel supported the apartheid government, there shouldn’t be a single jew on South Africa.
Shame on Israel.
Mr Biden and his government is losing his vote bank very swiftly and if continue support this disgrace of humanity he ll lose his political position
Horrible. The Jews of Israel will now face an unprecedented critical shortage of… oranges and… oranges.
Unlike India they didn’t forget the horrors of colonisation
India’s regime are begging to be picked by the west
South Africa respecting itself
My prayers go out to all those who oppose the Evil wishes of the EFF and ANC as they try to deny their Christian upbringing in favour of Socialistic, corrupt and destroying ways and their intent of reverse racism against the whites and denial of Israel. God, please look after your people and your land. Thank you to those rational people for your insight and knowledge as usual. Just a pity it falls on Satan followers ears who simply dont care but my Faith is in Jesus Christ who can and will overcome ALL Evil. I warn all those voting to think before rasing you hand against Gods will, I remind you of genesis 12.3 and urge you to read it before voting against Israel. One day, as you Judge others now, so will you be Judged. God Bless.
Free free Palestine. From the river to the sea. South African youth will stand with you. Evens if we are still in school. ❤
🇿🇦🇵🇸🇿🇦🇵🇸🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦South Africans who say they are pro Israel and Christians are the hypocrites of the greatest order, the greatest of Judases..the ones who had Whites only Churches and Black only Churches because blacks were made children of a lesser God, while whites were made in Gods image?
Jesus was a Palestinian, what would Jesus Say or Do in the light of this oppression? Did he not enter the temple and rebuke the scholars against injustice? ..South Africans who fought Apartheid were white and black muslim jew and Christians atheists and Hindus african traditional religions side by side.. this has nothing to do with religion. SA jews fought hard to defeat Apartheid and only the racist ones ran away to Israel since democracy because they couldnt live with their fellow South Africans.
We will never support oppression from an Apartheid Zionists State like Israel whether by white or black no matter the price to pay.
White people and Jews by extension are the beneficiaries of Democracy in SA (as they never suffered under Apartheid and continued to benefit under democracy) and factually were our oppressors through their government..yet we live side by side as equals today.. only the racist ones deny Apartheid as a crime against humanity and judas blacks with pieces of silver in their pockets find Solidarity with Israel.
Today we are one in Nationhood and purpose and we stand side byside black and white despite our beliefs against Apartheid of Israel or any other oppressor ..we are with Palestine as the Oppressed.
That man is mixing politics with religion;
Israel is a nation; a nation with political aims and policies.
Israel of the bible; unless Christians strive to live in that land (in which case they will suffer the plight of the thousands of non- white population)…… they might as well just get visas to got Israel instead of praying to “ascend to” Israel.
Yeh – SA is a complete mess and cANCer think they are cleva – cannot even sort out the Phalaballas fiasco of CR17 and now cANCer want to play big boys of the world. What a sick bunch they are
Hamas is talking of wiping out lsreal all Christians that is true to Jesus Christ must surport lsreal for God our God gave lsreal to Abraham and only in the written history of lsreal is there real evidence who lsreal belong the Palestinians has no written history that lsreal belong to them not all of South Africa surport the South African government in their policy towards lsreal this state of affairs will harm South Africa not lsreal lsreal will win this warand the ANC government will not be the government of South Africa after next year elections praise be to Jesus Christ our saviour God hallelujah Jesus Christ forever amen
Que Deus, conceda o livramento ao povo que estão manifestando, em pró da Palestina 🙏😭
Palestina livre 🙏😭😭😭
Hypocrisy when Genocide is going on in Darfur and South Africa is quiet.
I am not certain that there is overwhelming support from citizens of South Africa for closing the Israeli Embassy in South Africa . The simple fact is that what South Africa does has no practical value for the Palestinians. In the same manner what we did had had no value to the war in Ukraine or the Iranian government’s war on women . It is worth noting that not one of the super powers (Russia , the USA and China ) are closing the Israeli embassies in their respective countries . I am sure ( I have not checked ) that the majority of the members of the AU will continue having Israeli embassies in their countries . The overwhelming majority of the members of the UN are in favour of a two state resolution along the lines of UN resolution 242 . Israel does not want it and the US supports them so nothing will happen . Periodically there will be extreme violence and the killing of thousands of civilians . There will be lots of rhetoric and noting will happen. The Palestinians have been betrayed so many times . They are not powerful and do not possess wealth and therefore have no rights . This is largely true of all those that are neither powerful or wealthy .
Ohhhh noooo a 3rd world racist commies wants to cut ties!
Nelson mandela was also a terrorist
Silly!!! Black South Africans couldn’t protest against the continued genocide on Ibo people by the Arab-Fulani colonialists in Nigeria but they could protest for murderous Arab terrorists in Gaza, who are murdering thousands of Israeli children and women in cold blood. Are black people really cursed for goodness sake?
I support Israel…
Strangely no soul asks for freeing hostages. Why is this double standard?
Ain’t no debate to be had. South Africa will NEVER support Apartheid or Racist Zionists. This “debate” is over before it starts.
Solidarity with Palestine🇵🇸