It is easy to appreciate why, in Southern Africa, attitudes of students, converts, veterans and sympathisers of what one can loosely term ‘liberation politics’ usually oscillate between empathy and suspicion when it comes to Palestinian Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank.
This is said from credible historical empirical evidence. Identifiable resistance in the region against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories emerged in the early 1960s, ironically about the same era of African nationalist resistance against British, French and Portuguese colonialism.
Now that there is fully-fledged conflagration between Hamas and Israel, there is bound to be mixed empathies with the millions of Arabs in territories under siege from Israel Defence Forces . If you follow South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor closely, her country’s pro-Palestine stance is heavily influenced by what she portrays as colonial bully behaviour by Israel.Those at the extreme end of this view term it ‘Israeli apartheid in Palestine’. There has so far not been a ‘solidarity vote’ within the SADC bloc, yet for all intents and purposes, condemnation of Hamas by other member states is ambivalent.
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