Dugard v Law and Evidence

Galya Tregenza0 comment

Prof. Dugard’s anti-Israel diatribe in the Cape Argus was met with a powerful response from international Professor of Law, Prof. Gregory Rose. Read the response from Prof. Rose here: The opinion of John Dugard in the Cape Argus, Friday, 27 November 2020, was both sad and surprising. Sad because so predictable in its anti-Israel diatribe. Surprising because of its disregard of international law. One does not build a career that ascends to the heights of UN special rapporteur for anti-Israelism without exceptional efforts to demonise Israel, so it is sadly…

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Cynical censure of Israel

Rodney Mazinter0 comment

Rodney Mazinter’s brilliant letter below was published in The Sunday Times on 22 November 2020. Cynicism masquerading as humanitarianism and compassion is alive and well in the highest echelons of the UN. It reveals a self-imposed blindness bolstered by lies and distortions to underpin the wild assertions trotted out to vilify and condemn Israel. The World Health Organisation, to its everlasting discredit, becomes a standard bearer for hypocrisy and lies. At its annual assembly they deviated from their focus on the global response to the coronavirus pandemic by holding a…

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SA would gain from de-hyphenating Israel-Palestine

Rowan0 comment

The country has been in thrall to Palestinian ‘rejectionism’, at the cost of the benefits of stronger relations with Israel and the Palestinians​ by Rowan Polovin, National Chairman, South African Zionist Federation The desert sands of the Middle East and Africa are shifting quickly. The widely held view that peace between Israel and the Arab and Muslim nations depends upon peace between Israel and the Palestinians has been shown to be a mirage. The Arab world, and much of Africa, has become impatient with decades of Palestinian rejectionism and multiple…

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Abraham Accords Peace Agreement

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday joined the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House to mark historic normalization agreements between Israel and the two Arab countries. The Government of the United Arab Emirates and the Government of the State of IsraelThe Government of the United Arab Emirates and the Government of the State of Israel (hereinafter, the “Parties”) Aspiring to realize the vision of a Middle East region that is stable, peaceful and prosperous, for the benefit of all…

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