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South Africa is set to fully severdiplomatic relations with Israel, the US-based Al-Monitor reported on Sunday.
Citing Israeli diplomatic sources,the newspaper indicated that the historically sensitive relationship betweenIsrael and South Africa has reached a critical juncture following a steadydeterioration in recent months.
That trajectory has been reinforced byPretoria’s earlier decision to give Israeli chargé d’affaires Ariel Seidman 72hours to leave the country. Israel responded with a reciprocal step, grantingSouth African diplomat Shaun Edward Bainfield the same deadline to depart.
When confirming the expulsion of theIsraeli envoy, South Africa pointed to what it described as “a series ofunacceptable violations of diplomatic norms” by Israel. These included therepeated use of official Israeli social media platforms to post derogatoryremarks about President Cyril Ramaphosa, as well as the failure of Israeliofficials to notify the South African government in advance of diplomaticvisits across the country.
Al-Monitor placed the currentstandoff within a long and complex history between Israel and South Africa.During South Africa’s apartheid era (1948–1994), the country remained among thefew African states that did not cut diplomatic ties with Israel during the 1973Arab-Israeli war. At the same time, Israel, despite publicly condemningapartheid, continued to strengthen its relationship with the apartheid regime,a move still viewed as hostile by South Africa’s current leadership.
Another shift emerged in 2001, whenthe UN World Conference against Racism in Durban marked a turning point, withSouth Africa and other African and Arab countries issuing a statementdescribing Zionism as a form of racism and labeling Israel an “apartheidstate.”
Relations further eroded in thefollowing decade, as Pretoria increasingly aligned with Palestine. In March 2023,the South African parliament voted on a non-binding resolution to downgradeIsrael’s embassy to a liaison office. Additionally, a month after the October 7Israeli war on Gaza erupted, South Africa filed a case against Israel at theInternational Court of Justice, accusing it of war crimes and genocide, whileoutlining plans to arrest Israeli soldiers holding dual South Africancitizenship who visit the country for alleged war crimes.
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