LETTER: Hypocrisy for post-apartheid SA to support two-state solution in Israel
The reality is that Israel-Palestine is one country from the ‘river to the sea’
When will President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC have the courage and honesty to denounce the so-called “two state solution” between Israel-Palestine? They need to put a stop to this charade at the UN and elsewhere. It is grotesque hypocrisy for our post-apartheid government to support a two-state solution of “petty apartheid” humiliations within Israel proper and “grand apartheid” bantustans beyond the green line. The world rightly judged apartheid in SA to be unacceptable, so why must its Zionist variation be imposed upon the Palestinians?
We tried a “10-state solution” during apartheid SA: it proved an unmitigated disaster. The reality is that Israel-Palestine is one country from the “river to the sea”. One democratic and secular state will mean the end of the Zionist/apartheid state of Israel. So be it. Jews will still be able to speak Hebrew, and worship in synagogues. And like white South Africans, Israelis will be liberated from the burdens of apartheid, including recurr...
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