Posted on 01/13/2024 9:27:17 PM PST by Freeleesy
They also condemn the government for failing to condemn Hamas's actions in Gaza.
Christians throughout South Africa have risen against the government's decision to take Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on charges that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
"The African National Congress government and their allies' decision to take Israel to the International Court of Justice has brought us to a place where, like the time of Queen Esther in the Bible, we cannot keep silent," said Tshego Motaung, head of the Healing of the Nations prayer for Israel movement in an article published on the South African Christian website Gateway News. "We cannot keep silent when a government that has failed on its domestic mandate wants to rise as a hero in the global political arena."
Her article, published on Tuesday, came on the heels of an open letter by dozens of faith-based organizations in opposition to the case.
"We, the South African Christian leaders, strongly oppose the decision by the South African government to launch the case against Israel and demand it be rescinded immediately," the letter read.
"We had hoped and prayed that our government would use its influence as a peacemaker to bring about a meaningful and lasting peace in the Middle East," the letter continued. "Regrettably, it has elected not to do so and instead has chosen sides. We, as Christians, deplore the loss of innocent lives, be it the Jews, Palestinians, Christians, or any other people, but are strongly opposed to the decision."
Groups call South Africa's decision to launch complaint "fundamentally flawed".
The organizations, which include the South African Christian Leaders Forum, Christian View Network, Bridges for Peace, International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, and about two dozen others, called the decision "fundamentally flawed" after Hamas entered Israel on October 7 and raped, mutilated burned and murdered innocent Israelis.
"This was a deliberate genocide attempt and is supported by Hamas' charter calling for the total destruction of Israel," the Christians wrote. "Israel does not seek to wipe Gaza or the Palestinians off the face of the map. It seeks to defend itself. This is a case of victim blaming by our government."
Moreover, they said that the decision would go against the best interest of South Africa and could have determinative political and economic consequences, given that the country's major trading partners said they see the case as an endorsement of Hamas's terrorism.
They also condemn the government for failing to condemn Hamas's actions in Gaza.
"Such actions could be interpreted as direct support to Hamas's tactics, including using civilians as human shields and diverting aid for military purposes and the building of tunnels, rather than humanitarian relief sent to the Palestinian people, which Hamas intercepted," the letter continued.
In addition, the letter said that the slogan "'from the river to the sea' means Israel must become Palestine and Jews must be destroyed. Aside from denying the Jews a right to a homeland in the aftermath of the Holocaust, where does this leave us Christians?
"Places of worship for Christians in the Holy Land will be destroyed," the Christians said.
The writers added that South Africa is not a Muslim country but majority-Christian.
"The South African government has prejudiced the interests of its own people to achieve the political and religious objectives of others. The government is also aware that the one-sided approach it has adopted has placed its Jewish citizens at risk by inciting antisemitism as well as eroding the freedom of religion of Christians in South Africa," the letter read.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post from South Africa, Motaung said the nation is not involved in South Africa's foreign policy. She noted that although the people vote for those in power, "there is a serious disconnect with the majority."
The Christian community in South Africa "has been standing with Israel for years," Motaung noted. But she said that the recent Israel-Hamas war and rising anti-Israel sentiment have led local Christians to be even more vocal.
"Christians are standing with Israel because we believe in the Bible," she told the Post.
Motaung added in her Gateway News article: "History has recorded over many generations of kings and kingdoms who rose against Israel and the Jewish people, seeking to wipe them out.
"Israel still exists because none of those attempts succeeded," she concluded. "Perhaps this decision to be an accuser of Israel may just be what is needed to hasten the judgment of God against the ANC government and deliver the people of South Africa from their corruption."
More guts than almost all US churches who cowered in fear of government edicts telling them to shut their churches down during the Wuhan flu despite both biblical and constitutional authority that overrides the governors.
“The International Court of Justice is composed of 15 judges elected to nine-year terms of office by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council.”
United Nations aka United Muslims
Despite being treated exactly the same by Communist propaganda during the Cold War, both anti-Israel "conservatives" and "Jewish" liberals always insisted that Israel and South Africa were on opposite sides of the world conflict. To support one was to oppose the other.
Yet here the government all the liberals were working to implement turns out to be one of the most anti-Israel in the world. Do you suppose this will change any of the above rascals' minds? Of course not. It's called "dogma."
And to think, when the Portuguese, Dutch and English settled in SA there were no blacks there. Just a few Bushmen and Hottentots. The Zulus were still far to the North East. Many Boer lived their entire life and died in SA without ever seeing a Zulu.
Interesting
Those in the supposed "FREE" West, with their whole "get RSA" and making a "saint" out of a murdering terrorist, destroyed a once prosperous nation.
And it was the Brits, NOT the Boers, who started the whole Apartheid thing.
There shouldn’t be any white people left in Africa.
Mr. Frans Cromje, and independent economic advisor at The Institute of Race Relations, in RSA was interviewed about this and he said that the ANC is in cahoots with and being paid by Iran, to do all of this and far worse!
Iran, Hamass, and higher ups in the ANC secretly met and planned out the attack on Israel, on 10/7/23.
They also designed a propaganda war, to make the West stop funding and being an supporter of Israel. The whole idea, besides defunding, etc., is to convince young Jews to stop joining the military, influence ( brainwash! ) young people world wide to HATE Israel and ALL Jews EVERYWHERE, and to make world wide Jewry scared to death.
Then Hamas and the Muslims will take over a weakened and poor Israel, that can no longer fight them,as they are doing now.
Then, the next step is to go after US!
Izzat Al-Rishq, a member of the Political Bureau of Hamas has posted a "love letter" to RSA, thanking it for sending this suit against Israel, to The Hague and acting as Hamas' legal team! This message went out on what was once called TWITTER.
There was more info in the interview I heard, but this is the gist of it.
And the things to remember about this EVIL alliance, are:RSA IS NOT A MUSLIM NATION, THE ANC ARE A BUNCH OF STINKING BLACK COMMIES WHO HATE WHITES, and RSA was NEVER this bad to blacks, as these blacks are to whites, colored, and blacks who aren't supporters of the ANC!
And one other small bit of info you all need to know.... Until the ANC took over, the Army would patrol the borders and kept the vast majority of ILLEGAL BLACK INVADERS, FROM OTHER AFRICAN NATIONS, out of RSA. Now, a vast amount of blacks living there now, are either damned ILLEGAL ALIENS or the children of them!
OMG, ANC knew in advance Oct 7 attack?
Yes, they helped to plot it and met with Hamas leaders, in RSA, on 10/7!
Please read post #28.
It’s a Grim Situation there, but not unexpected.
Mandela came to Boston in 1990 to spread his venom, and a bunch of people I knew went to hear him speak.
I refused.
Sadly, a LOT of people were taken in by him.
I know as I spent three weeks there when it was truly the RSA and peace, tranquility, jobs and industry was plentiful.
Something was a shanty town filled mostly with people who slunk over the border from impoverished countries in search of jobs.
The manager of one of the hotel we stayed in was a black man and the room adjacent to ours was occupied by a black couple.
Everything was orderly and thoroughly enjoyable. Not so Today. I wouldn’t
recommend it at all.
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2nd paragraph s/b soweto
Good for them.
The vast majority of things that the West and especially Americans know about this once great nation, comes from movies and propaganda.
The Boers NEVER owned slaves; however, the Zulus did! That's how the Xhosa ( Mandela's tribe ) was brought into South Africa!
The Soweto RIOTS were caused by blacks who DEMANDED that they ONLY had teachers teach in a tribal language and NOT in Afrikaans, which was really stupid., Neither did they want English being taught, as it was in all other schools. It was to enable these kids to do well and be able to advance out of poverty; yet they refused it and went on a rampage.
They also blamed Apartheid on the Boer; however, it was the BRITS, after the Boer war, who imposed Apartheid!
And as you have pointed out, blacks were able to have good jobs and behave well, once upon a time.
And now that the ANC is close pals with Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah...look out world; they're coming for us next and gave said so.
Great points!
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