All SA opposition roads that lead to political Washington

ambassador Bheki Gila

IT would be insensitively naïve to imagine that the Washington-Pretoria relations can be gleaned from the US-RSA prism only. The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was quick in reminding us that it is the price South Africa must pay for initiating the genocide petition against Israel at the ICJ. Put differently, this means the genocide case is an adequate reason for the US administration to permanently damage its relations with South Africa. And considering Tel Aviv’s stranglehold over US succession politics and its policy machinery, it mattered very little whether or not it was US President Donald Trump in office or his democratic equivalent. South Africa may not have a Trump problem. It has a massive Netanyahu headache. There are many labyrinths that have conspired to this awkward moment.…

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Sunday Independent (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2025-03-23

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