SA at odds with world powers and Brics nations about Israel
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. It votes against measures that sanction human rights abusers and praises the “diversity” of totalitarian dictatorships. It abstains on the appointment of a special rapporteur on violence against the LGBTI community and on resolutions condemning human rights abuses in Syria. It keeps consistently but deafeningly silent about all the horrors and atrocities committed in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, as well as on the mistreatment of women, minorities and children. It sits Janus-faced on the international stage, facilitating the work of despots offshore while proclaiming the values of human rights back home. There is but one country at which SA...
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