This past week, South African-Israeli relations sunk to one of their lowest points since the “new” South Africa began in 1994. The only other incident that caused such a fuss was the 2010 Gaza flotilla debacle when Israeli Ambassador Dov Segev-Steinberg received a dressing-down from then-deputy minister of international relations, Sue van der Merwe, and South Africa withdraw its ambassador from Tel...
- By Margaret Holmes
- 17 Aug 2012
- 08:08PM
There are many South Africans who do not share the position of the SA government on Israel, and adhere to the Biblical injunction to 'pray for the peace of Jerusalem'.
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