LETTER: Defending Israel should not be done by amateurs?
Israel would do well to give more of its new-found wealth to African migrants, as it could make some much-needed friends
As if Israel did not have enough problems, it seems to be deploying amateurs to represent it. Rowan Polovin of the SA Zionist Federation’s Cape branch argued in this paper on April 10 2019, (SA at odds with world powers and Brics nations about Israel), that the ANC’s political strategists are too stupid to realise that “hating the Middle Eastern country has never garnered the ANC votes or won it any international favour”. I explained in a letter on April 13 (For SA to be more supportive of Israel, the Zionist Fed needs a better strategy) that Israel would do better replacing Polovin with a lobbyist competent enough to understand that the best way to sell Israel is not to tell politicians they want to make friends with, that they are stupid. Now, on April 23, Business Day publishes an even more unfortunate perspective from the SA-Israel Policy Forum’s Rolene Marks’s (Comments on Israel are racist), who would have you believe that the terms “Zionist project” and “apartheid colonialis...
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