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「Ramaphosa assures Jewish community Pretoria won’t sever ties with Israel, but condemns Gaza ‘genocide’
#Jewish community leaders have said that President #Ramaphosa has reassured them that Pretoria does not intend severing diplomatic ties with #Israel.
In a meeting with the community leaders, Ramaphosa also denounced anti-Semitic behaviour towards Jewish people in #SouthAfrica — “including the boycott of Jewish-owned businesses” — as well as #Islamophobia. He also condemned #Hamas for its attack on Israel on 7 October and demanded it return the Israeli hostages it took in that attack and is still holding.
Leaders of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (#SAJBD) and SA Zionist Federation (#SAZF) said after meeting Ramaphosa on Wednesday that he “re-iterated #Dirco’s public position that there was no intention to sever diplomatic ties between Israel and South Africa.”
This position appeared to contradict the #ANC support of a resolution passed in Parliament last month calling on Pretoria to sever relations with Israel because of its bombardment of #Gaza. The government had indicated already that it regarded this resolution as purely advisory and was not obliged to implement it. But the SAJBD’s statement was the clearest sign that it does not intend doing so.
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In his statement, Ramaphosa strongly condemned the “#genocide” which he said was being inflicted on the Palestine people in Gaza and called for an immediate humanitarian #ceasefire. 」