LETTER: Government in cloud cuckoo land on Israel
SA needs to speak up about the ever-expanding apartheid Judeocracy
Terry Crawford-Browne (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2021-05-17-letter-hypocrisy-for-post-apartheid-sa-to-support-two-state-solution-in-israel/) aptly calls the SA government’s bewildering adherence to the two-state solution for historical Palestine “grotesque hypocrisy” (“Hypocrisy for postapartheid SA to support two-state solution for Israel”, May 17).
Israeli politicians long ago stopped paying even lip service to the two-state solution, while our government prefers to live in cloud cuckoo land. This is the reality on the ground: 3-million Palestinians are hemmed into 165 enclaves in the West Bank, which constitute 10% of historical Palestine, while more than 600,000 Israeli settlers live in more than 130 illegal West Bank settlements. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regularly announces the expansion of existing settlements or the building of new settlements. ..
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