Tag: Hamas

18Dec 2017

Hamas at ANC 54 Conference

Picture above: Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal speaks to South African president Jacob Zuma ahead of a media briefing at the headquarters of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) in Johannesburg. Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters By Uriel ben Avraham During apartheid South Africa, boycotts were called against the country. The point of the boycotts was to […]

Mahmud Abbas & Yahya Sinwar
08Oct 2017

Gazing at Gaza

Palestinian reconciliation – Is it a time of promise or a leadup to another letdown? There was much anticipation in Israel this October week with the envoys from the PA (Palestinian Authority) meeting their Hamas counterparts in Gaza with the goal of reuniting Gaza and the West Bank under the ‘legitimate’ – last election was […]

07May 2017

Child Abuse – When Children Become Weapons

By Peter Bailey The world is a depressing place when children are used as the spear-point to achieve military or political objectives. Whatever the objective, however noble the cause might seem in certain eyes, nothing can ever justify parents allowing and even encouraging the brainwashing, and filling their children with hatred. The glory of death […]

05Apr 2017

Comparing Jaffa Oranges with Cape Naartjies!

By Peter Bailey Observers are quick to compare the current situation in Israel with that in South Africa prior to the first democratic elections in 1994. The facts show that nothing could be further from the truth. The parties to the conflict in South Africa desired peace; the parties to one side of the conflict […]