JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: Did government think before it poked Israeli bear?
Foreign policy framework requires it to consider all possible effects, implications and blowbacks
12 February 2025 - 05:00
If you are in the habit of poking bears you should at the very least think things through, especially when the kind of bears you go for are prone to serious toothache.
SA’s decision to go for Israel over its bombing of Gaza is one such act of poking bears. This column is not about the correctness or otherwise of the decision, but whether the SA government thought through its decision. That is, did it consider all the possible effects, implications and blowbacks, a balance that is required by its foreign policy framework? ..
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